If you're out of warranty, avoid Apple repair and Apple Authorized service providers at all costs. Much like the apple stores, Apple forces AASPs to declare ev

If you're out of warranty, avoid Apple repair and Apple Authorized service providers at all costs. Much like the apple stores, Apple forces AASPs to declare everything a mainboard repair and ship the devices in, forbidding them from doing simple port swaps and such. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Dkzj10jeA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Dkzj10jeA The officially refurbed mainboards have exceedingly low quality to boot. That same youtuber has run into official refurbs with rubber pads to push intermittent connections into position, boards that were clearly left in the oven over lunch break, and so on. Someone wrote in from the refurb center, which is apparently run like a sweatshop with competitive quotas that make shoddy refurbishing and "run it on the test bench again, it might work" nonsense inevitable. It's bad. Apple Authorized repair doesn't exist to repair your device, it exists to persuade you to buy a new device.