What to do with a faulty macbook?

[Farisworld]

Hi,

I got a Macbook air (mid 2011) which is unable to boot and shops believed it is due to ram or motherboard issues which is costly to repair, perhaps around $500-$1000.

Used it for about 3 years before I dropped it 4-5 month ago and but till earlier this week it just crashed and won't boot up, have 3 beep sound. I am unable to enter bios to wipe my HDD either. One shop was nice to tell me it was not feasible to repair as it would be better to buy a new one.

However, I tend to not trust repair shops especially with some shops swopping original parts for fake parts unless they do it in front of my eyes but most shops have a turn-around time of 1 week. Since Apple quoted almost $1k, I decide to sell it away but I can't fetch much.

It comes with 256GB SSD drives which can be converted into a external HDD with the right hardware which I plan to do so instead of dumping the whole laptop for $100. Other than that, many Carousell seller is quoting less than $100.

Any suggestions how I can get the best out of it? Appreciate it

 

[ant3202]

Hi,

I got a Macbook air (mid 2011) which is unable to boot and shops believed it is due to ram or motherboard issues which is costly to repair, perhaps around $500-$1000.

Used it for about 3 years before I dropped it 4-5 month ago and but till earlier this week it just crashed and won't boot up, have 3 beep sound. I am unable to enter bios to wipe my HDD either. One shop was nice to tell me it was not feasible to repair as it would be better to buy a new one.

However, I tend to not trust repair shops especially with some shops swopping original parts for fake parts unless they do it in front of my eyes but most shops have a turn-around time of 1 week. Since Apple quoted almost $1k, I decide to sell it away but I can't fetch much.

It comes with 256GB SSD drives which can be converted into a external HDD with the right hardware which I plan to do so instead of dumping the whole laptop for $100. Other than that, many Carousell seller is quoting less than $100.

Any suggestions how I can get the best out of it? Appreciate it

bro if you are selling, let me know..... anything you can PM me,
as one of my friend, same model laptop screen is shattered.