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Meanwhile Andy could’ve gotten Apple Care for 3 years for $140 USD (~ €128).
by astrea 3y ago
Meanwhile Andy could’ve gotten Apple Care for 3 years for $140 USD (~ €128).
- suprjami 3y agoI've worked in laptop repair for various brands before (Acer, Dell, Compaq). Whenever people ask my advice I always recommend they buy a laptop extended warranty, and I buy it myself. It usually pays for itself on the first service call. That said, a thousand Euros to replace a battery is ludicrous. No consumer should be charged that, warranty or no. For reference, I recently got a second hand recent ThinkPad with a dud battery and bought the genuine replacement battery for AU$200 (€123) and could replace it myself as it's an FRU. Apple should not be charging literally an entire order of magnitude more for the same part, regardless of the service cost.
- windowsrookie 3y agoThey don't charge that much. As per the Apple website, they charge $249 to replace the battery in a 2019 16" MacBook Pro. https://support.apple.com/mac/repair https://support.apple.com/mac/repair
- suprjami 3y agoTop poster to this thread has confirmed the cost was €750
- toyg 3y agoApple does things cheaper in the US. The imperial periphery gets value-extracted much harder.
- BillinghamJ 3y agohttps://support.apple.com/en-ie/mac/repair https://support.apple.com/en-ie/mac/repair 289 EUR for all 15"/16" MBPs The only reason they'd require a full top case replacement would be if there was additional damage making them unable to guarantee safety of the new battery
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- zakki 3y agoIt doesn't solve the problem when it happens 3y+1d.
- windowsrookie 3y agoAppleCare is perpetually extendable now. I still have AppleCare on my 2018 MacBook Pro.