At what point am I voiding my warranty
I'm getting a MBP next week. At which time I am putting in an OWC SSD and taking the CD Drive out and replacing with a second hard drive.
Probably a silly question, but am I voiding my warranty when I do this?
Too bad if I am cause I might be tempted on springing for the Apple Care to be safe since I am putting serious money in this machine.
Obviously I wouldn't expect anything to do with the second drive or the SSD to be covered under warranty.
Bryan
Probably a silly question, but am I voiding my warranty when I do this?
Too bad if I am cause I might be tempted on springing for the Apple Care to be safe since I am putting serious money in this machine.
Obviously I wouldn't expect anything to do with the second drive or the SSD to be covered under warranty.
Bryan
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The optical drive is questionable... just keep the original to put back in if you need warranty service.
This is the first...or for that matter the second time I have gotten bad info from Apple retail people. Not feeling the love right now.
I KNOW replacing the HDD does NOT void the warranty... the literature that comes with the MBP even explains how to do it.
The optical drive is questionable... just keep the original to put back in if you need warranty service.
I'm getting a MBP next week. At which time I am putting in an OWC SSD and taking the CD Drive out and replacing with a second hard drive.
Probably a silly question, but am I voiding my warranty when I do this?
Too bad if I am cause I might be tempted on springing for the Apple Care to be safe since I am putting serious money in this machine.
Obviously I wouldn't expect anything to do with the second drive or the SSD to be covered under warranty.
Bryan
My 2 cents... Hard Disk swap doesn't void the warranty (there's generally no way to tell if you put the original hard disk back), CD Drive swap definitely yes.
Check out this thread. https://discussions.apple.com/messag...ageID=12015428
Really? My apple guy I talked to must not of been a "genius" then. He was acting wishy washy with me when I was trying to figure out what voids the warranty. He claim I void the warranty on anything that isn't user accessible. I asked him besides memory, what is user accessible? He said, "NOTHING" I rolled my eyes and walked away.
This is the first...or for that matter the second time I have gotten bad info from Apple retail people. Not feeling the love right now.
Explicitly, nothing besides the changing the memory is "allowed". The rest should be done by an authorised service centre.
In reality, hard drive changes are generally "let through", assuming you didn't damage anything and you put the original hard drive back in before sending it for service.
To be safe, get whatever modifications you want be done through a reputable authorised service centre, that way when you need to claim anything through the one-year or three-year AppleCare you can go through them with confidence.
Your Apple Genius was trying to protect you in a sense, by sticking to the line that only memory should be changed by the user. Like I said, in practice, various official Apple Stores and Apple authorised service centres may ignore user-replacement of hard drives, but this depends on city, country, circumstance, etc.
Explicitly, nothing besides the changing the memory is "allowed"..
wrong... The HDD is also explicitly allowed.
Check the Apple.com support section.