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Re:Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks by ghaff on Monday August 22, 2022 @10:10AM (#32551618)
The display on a laptop is almost certainly not a small part. When I got the display replaced on a 2015 MacBook under warranty (Apple extended because of screen mottling due to a manufacturing defect), they replaced the entire display assembly, i.e. top half of the laptop case and all.

In general, I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect the manufacturer to make parts available more granularly than they do to their own repair centers.

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Re:Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks by matsemann on Monday August 22, 2022 @10:15AM (#32551689)
But what if you had to replace the RAM, what would that cost? The CPU? Fix the keyboard? I think the total sum if you add the various components up it would be 10x a new machine, excluding the actual labor costs. And when there are others wanting to do it cheaper, but are being blocked by Apple, this doesn't sit right with me.
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