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[For Sale] Apple Macbook Pro 13" Retina 512GB / 8GB Ram / 2.7GHz (early 2015)

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Item: Apple Macbook Pro 13" Retina 512GB / 8GB Ram / 2.7GHz (early 2015)
Age: 1yr & 10 months
Warranty: No for reasons explained below
Packaging: No box
Condition: Excellent apart from one small issue explained below
Location: Bedfordview
Reason: Bought a 15"
Shipping: For your account
Collection: Yes
Price: 12 000
Link: https://support.apple.com/kb/sp715?locale=en_US

Comes with an extra logic board, Thule sleeve and 2 chargers.

I need to sell this unit asap. I bought a 15" from a local reseller and he agreed to trade this one in on the purchase of the other item. Taking 2 days to transfer my stuff over, the reseller had story after story about why he was unable to meet. Eventually after he 6 weeks he now says he won't be able to take my laptop and he is sorry. So now I am sitting with a laptop that I do not use or need, that was suppose to offset the cost of the purchased unit.

Story about the laptop:
This was a FNB device purchased in the beginning of 2016. Worked fine and I decided to upgrade to a 1TB ssd. Something went wrong around the file directories and after numerous attempts to fix this with technicians here and abroad, the conclusion was that the logic board was faulty. Now as I changed the ssd to a non apple ssd (used the one from OWC) the warranty was null and void. I then bought a second hand logic board from the US and installed it, with a 512GB apple ssd (acquired an oem SSD as well just to be sure). The unit worked fine. It was later found that the logic board was not faulty at all but the SSD was the item behaving badly. As such, the laptop will be sold with the 2x logic boards, the 512GB SSD (even though the original unit was

It needs to be noted that the scratch and bump protruding on the photos is where one of the pentalobe screwheads was stripped when trying to remove the bottom plate. The dremel slipped and scratched the plate (which you cannot see as there is the colorware skin on) and the black hinge of the screen. These are all on the photos which I can send to you.

I am struggling to upload photos as it seems the forum is flipping all of them around irrespective of the orientation uploaded. If you message me, I can send you the photos.
 
If you power down the Mac, then turn it on and immediately hold down the “D” key to initiate a hardware test, does everything come back 100%?


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Thanks for the info Kavish.

Ran the test and came back 100% with no issues found
 
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