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Re:Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks by dis-sys on Monday August 22, 2022 @12:01PM (#32553334)
> but it's easy for me to believe that the assembly-line price of a screen triples by the time a repair is installed and the user gets the laptop back.

Like it or not, in a lovely city called Shenzhen, it costs you $200 to get your macbook pro's screen replaced in a regular roadside repair shop just next building to your fancy apple shop.

As a low skill job, you get to master the procedure by watching online video tutorials, interestingly, that is also a viable business in Shenzhen, they have such "online schools" to get people trained for such jobs and some of their videos are free -

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLCQRIZLWDzzzhgKwSWBoRg/vid...

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Re:Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks by samatman on Monday August 22, 2022 @12:21PM (#32553615)
No doubt, feel free to find a service in Shenzhen you can ship your Mac to and employ them. It's not even implausible if you speak fluent Chinese, there are uh. Limits to your ability to recover if you make a bad choice, but it might work out.

And locals can import those screens right? Little bit of markup. Anyway let me know what the actual price is where you are, from someone who will actually do it, and isn't Apple, all of this is legal and the service is available. That will give us a point of comparison.

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