[Cube] I joined with a dead cube.

[Ken Johnson]

I purchased a whole cube (working fine, cosmetically fine) on ebay for 
less than the sum of all those parts!!!

Ken

On May 27, 2005, at 6:16 PM, Lou Hosta wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm brand new to this list.  I've had a Cube (note the past tense) 
> that I really enjoyed using.  One sad day there was a thunder way off 
> in the distance, somewhere that wasn't even close to my house.  
> Anyway, there was a phone line surge that killed my poor Cube.  It has 
> a 450 mHz processor with almost 1 gig of RAM and everything else is 
> original as the day I bought it.  I took it to an Apple Store and got 
> a quote on what it would cost to get it fixed. For a new Logic Board 
> ($627.72), New Rage 128 Video Card ($147.4), and a new DVD-ROM Optical 
> Drive ($296.47) and labor ($90.10) the grand total comes to $1161.69.  
> OUCH!!
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, input like going on to eBay 
> to get spare parts.  I'm a bit apprehensive to do this so if you have 
> had any experiences buying logic boards via eBay, I would like to know 
> about it.
>
>
> Thanks for the help and welcome.
> Lou
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