Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
by Mister_Snuggles on Friday June 22, 2018 @05:57PM
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On the new MacBook Pros, and probably the MacBooks too, the chips that make up the SSD are soldered onto the logic board. The logic board change swap is required for the customer to keep their data.
Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
by abrowne on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:01PM
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The SSD is part of the motherboard for MBPs with Touch Bar, both 15- and 13-inch, and MacBooks. The 13-inch without the Touch Bar, internally a very different design, does still have a separate SSD.
Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
by _wmd on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:38PM
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This is very welcome news to me, and I've seen it nowhere else. Do you have a canonical source for it? How about the RAM?
Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
by jdietrich on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:04PM
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The SSD is socketed but proprietary, using a non-standard connector and an Apple-designed controller chip. The RAM is soldered.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Function...
Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
by abrowne on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:26PM
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My canonical source is my eyes, having opened up all three types ;-)
But the sibling comment has pictures and is right about the ram.
Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
by p1mrx on Friday June 22, 2018 @05:58PM
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I'd assume "transfer the logic board" means that the user's original board moves to the new case. Sort of like how a head transplant is equivalent to a body transplant.
Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
by petecooper on Sunday June 24, 2018 @01:38AM
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Correct.
Why do you transfer the logic board? Do you need to obtain a new logic board (as part of the "top", and trash the original machine's logic board? )
As I recall (no pun intended) from past recalls, a logic board change is $300 itself (but that includes some redundancy if you are already doing a service call to change another part of the device)