Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
by seanalltogether on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:42AM
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I have a 2012 rMBP, one of the first revisions. I genuinely don't know what I'm gonna do when this thing eventually dies on me. It's been a great piece of hardware and I use all the ports on a consistent basis, even hdmi.
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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
by TomVDB on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:44PM
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I have the same one. It died on my 2 years ago and the cost to fix it ($600 for a new motherboard) was right at the tipping point between worth and not worth it. So I did it out of laziness. (Everything is backed up fine, but reinstalling all the tools etc is just a pain.)
Absolutely no regrets. I replaced the battery myself last week.
Crazy that we're now 7 years later and nobody has been able to come close to this kind of laptop perfection.