Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion

Re:Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion by kalleboo on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @11:53AM (#16922734)

My plan is to wait until there's a new model out, and then take it in for AppleCare warranty repairs once a month until I hit their lemon limit and they give me a new machine.

The durability of this keyboard is a joke. I even bought one of those rubber keyboard condoms that makes the keyboard suck to type on and the H key still got dust under it somehow and started typing hh.

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Re:Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion by hocheung20 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:04PM (#16922882)

Apple doesn't seem to have an official lemon limit but they replaced the top-case 5 times on my 2016 and then gave me a 2017 with the same specs (slightly faster processor), and it's already crapped out already although this time they managed to replace the key and fix it.

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Re:Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion by madeofpalk on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:45PM (#16925314)

You’re right that there’s no official “lemon limit”, but hey do have a process for it - it’s called ‘CRU’ (Customer Replacement Unit). It’s unlikely that they’ll offer it unprompted, but really after three repairs I find it difficult they would deny your request to have the laptop replaced.

It does require approval by a manager/“Lead Genius”, but you can get there by being reasonable.

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Re:Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion by tomduncalf on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @11:56AM (#16922779)

Nice idea - I've got the three year Applecare so at least I'll be able to get it fixed, didn't realise about the lemon limit!

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