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You can contact Apple support and they will kindly instruct you how to buy new MacBook Pro.

by sccxy 6y ago

chmaynard 6y ago
I appreciate good snark. However, you get bonus points if you add something substantial to the discussion. For example, my advice is to avoid upgrading to a new OS without a backup that can be easily re-installed when the installation goes south.
- Craighead 6y ago
  My advice is to start avoiding Apple
- harha 6y ago
  True, you should back up to avoid some strange edge case, but Apple markets itself as the company that makes using computers simpler and claims it works with the model. As a user I'd expect at the very least it not to systematically fail on a model that is intended to work. Also completely rolling back is much more difficult with the whole closed system issue (which is something users accept in return of simplicity), it's not like getting Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .
m463 6y ago
Now I sort of regret an apple store visit a year or two ago. A family member was in school and had a few-year-old macbook air that had a black screen. We took it to apple and they told me they could send it away to have it fixed for $700 or we could buy a new one for just a little more. And well, school. So we decided on the new one. And in for a penny, in for a pound. We had to keep going. We needed to upgrade, so we needed dongles. I think thunderbolt 2 cable + thunderbolt3 to tb2 dongle. and of course a tb3 to usb adapter. So power up the old machine (it still works), connect to new machine, upgrade over firewire and we're good. I should watch youtube and fix the old one. it has 2 regular usb ports + an sd card reader, so it's more useful. But I still have a bad taste in my mouth. $700 for a black screen? I think they really do raise the repair price all the way to a new one because they can.
- FireBeyond 6y ago
  Yup. Had water damage (known, understood, expected a charge to repair) to an MBP. It worked still, just fine. Battery health was 99% though charge was at zero. So a charging circuit. Okay, I think. Maybe $300ish with parts, labor, etc. No. "That's going to be $899+tax. Maybe we should look at some new MBPs instead - this one is two years old."
  - m463 6y ago
    I suspect they've done a/b testing to tweak the price of new vs repair in the favor of new.

You can contact Apple support and they will kindly instruct you how to buy new MacBook Pro.

by sccxy 6y ago

You can contact Apple support and they will kindly instruct you how to buy new MacBook Pro.

I appreciate good snark. However, you get bonus points if you add something substantial to the discussion. For example, my advice is to avoid upgrading to a new OS without a backup that can be easily re-installed when the installation goes south.

Craighead 6y ago
My advice is to start avoiding Apple
harha 6y ago
True, you should back up to avoid some strange edge case, but Apple markets itself as the company that makes using computers simpler and claims it works with the model. As a user I'd expect at the very least it not to systematically fail on a model that is intended to work. Also completely rolling back is much more difficult with the whole closed system issue (which is something users accept in return of simplicity), it's not like getting Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .

m463 6y ago

Now I sort of regret an apple store visit a year or two ago. A family member was in school and had a few-year-old macbook air that had a black screen. We took it to apple and they told me they could send it away to have it fixed for $700 or we could buy a new one for just a little more. And well, school. So we decided on the new one. And in for a penny, in for a pound. We had to keep going. We needed to upgrade, so we needed dongles. I think thunderbolt 2 cable + thunderbolt3 to tb2 dongle. and of course a tb3 to usb adapter. So power up the old machine (it still works), connect to new machine, upgrade over firewire and we're good. I should watch youtube and fix the old one. it has 2 regular usb ports + an sd card reader, so it's more useful. But I still have a bad taste in my mouth. $700 for a black screen? I think they really do raise the repair price all the way to a new one because they can.

FireBeyond 6y ago
Yup. Had water damage (known, understood, expected a charge to repair) to an MBP. It worked still, just fine. Battery health was 99% though charge was at zero. So a charging circuit. Okay, I think. Maybe $300ish with parts, labor, etc. No. "That's going to be $899+tax. Maybe we should look at some new MBPs instead - this one is two years old."
- m463 6y ago
  I suspect they've done a/b testing to tweak the price of new vs repair in the favor of new.