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These are a few my recent iPod repair experiences.
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Leslie Burma is a previous client who lives in Napa California (94558). Last time she had smashed the LCD screen in her Macbook Pro and needed it replaced.
This time she hit me by email to discuss upgrades to the same laptop. The message was,
"Hi Again Frank;
I would like to upgrade my hard drive on my macbook. It is 3 years old, you replaced the screen. How much can I upgrade in Hard drive and Memory. Also, I would like to clean it up and put Garage Band back on. I removed the PC side already for more memory.
What are the costs for you to do this?
Leslie Burma
Valley Girl Tours, your new best friend!
Valley Girl Vineyards Estate Pinot Noir
Pina Napa Valley"
My reply included instructions on where she should shop for drive replacement and additional memory, with a recommendation on what to get as an upgrade.
A couple of weeks later she had all the parts and brought it over the hill to me.
The first thing I had to do was put Carbon Copy Cloner on her present hard drive, and then clone her old 120 Gb drive into a new bootable 500GB drive.
That cloning took 2 hours. Then I switched out the drive and installed the 4GB RAM memory into the laptop.
The Garage Band aspects was tricky... the approach I took was to up grade her OS from 10.5.8 to 10.6.5 and crossed my fingers that I had a version of iLife that would slide into her system giving her Garage Band.
After a 4 hour install of the OS, the version of iLife I had wouldn't load. The discs first examined the logic board to see if they had been delivered with it. When they figured out they hadn't the process stopped.
So.. she had a substantively better laptop and I recommended she go to the Apple Store and buy the newer iLife 11 upgrade for $49... dirt cheap for a whole toolset to manage your life. Which she thought was a terrific idea.
Total cost for my work on her laptop was $125 also a good value.
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I'm in Sonoma County... Northern California wine country.
If you live nearby, are traveling through or live in the San Francisco Bay Area bring your iPod to me and I can do the work while you wait or go wine tasting for a while. Send me an
email just to make sure I have on hand whatever parts your repair will require.
Call or email me
with questions or to set up a repair. You can also call, I am here most days from 8am to 8pm
Toll Free 1-877-IPOD-PRO (1 - 877 - 476-3776)
Send the device to:
Frank Walburg
2145 Service Court
Santa Rosa, Ca 95403-3139
Methods of payment
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