Mac vs. PC Hardrive

Ok, well one thing for sure is that the hard drive should either be ide or sata. So, hardware wise, you should be able to hook up the hard drive to another computer. However, i have no idea if you can read the drive from a windows pc. If you had an external adapter and connected the drive to another mac, it would for sure work.

Besides the point, it would be interesting to find out why it would cost $1k to fix a macbook. that's rediculous for a price just to fix a stinking laptop. Unless they were planning on getting a new system in and salvaging the hardware XD wow.

you can if you get MacDrive which will allow reading/writing of Macintosh filesystems (in particular HFS+). Think of it as a driver for Mac HDDs.

Available here for $50: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

Very good program (Not sure if they updated it to work with Vista/XP 64-bit, so if you have a 64-bit OS you may want to check. If you have 32-bit you're good to go.)

Rabid, It's a laptop motherboard. It's not like you can find them for sale at newegg or anywhere normal for that matter. Given that's already expensive plus tech costs from mac? Yep, there's the extra ~$500 your wondering about. LOL!

I remember when I had to fix my dell laptop. They were charging a ridiculous $700. So, I just looked for my mobo on ebay and got it for $300 instead. It was still a shocker, but at least it was no where near $700.

wow...that's freaking insane. Hope my mobo in my laptop never goes haywire (crosses fingers).