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Old 25th January 2019, 07:53   #1
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Default Apple stuffs up MacBook repair with design

$6 dollar repair becomes $600 design disaster

MacBook Pro owners are suffering from a design flaw in their expensive toys which means they will have to fork out $600 to fix a minor fault which would normally cost $6 to fix.

MacBook Pro owners have complained of a ‘stage light’ effect, where they see uneven backlighting at the bottom of the display. For some, the symptom is only the first stage, with the backlight failing altogether.

iFixit said that the cause was due to the way that Apple changed the design of the Touch Bar generation for the MacBook Pro. For those who came in late, the Touch Bar was a pretty but largely useless special effect on the MacBook Pro which rendered it mostly useless to its business working audience.

The design meant that Apple used much thinner ribbon cables instead of the thicker wires used in previous generation MacBook Pro models. These cables wrap over the board, where a pair of spring-loaded covers secures them —and they’re subjected to the stress of bending with every opening and closure of the laptop. Within a seemingly short time, those cables are starting to fatigue and tear. The backlight cable is generally the first to go, producing the infamous “stage light” symptoms, and eventually giving out entirely when the laptop is opened more than about 40°.

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