How Apple authorized repair refurbishes Macbooks to fail again! GPU kernel panics
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in threads about Apple repair and refurbishment as evidence of poor refurbishing, with a warning that Rossmann uses colorful language.
What it is
Louis Rossmann examines a 2012 MacBook Pro logic board that Apple refurbished for GPU failures and that failed again. He criticizes the quality of Apple's authorized repair work and argues for right to repair.
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What Hacker News said
Cites andrei_says_ · 2021-11 · on “When will the new MacBook Pro be refurbished?”
Louis Rossman has two videos discussing (and showing the boards of) refurbished Apple laptops. I imagine the quality varies depending on the third party who does the refurbishing. The videos contain some colorful language. [this video] [LINK]
Critical rootlocus · 2019-04 · on “Baked MacBook Air: A cautionary recipe”
Between 2011 and 2013 Apple had a repair extension program for video issues. This is how they fixed them: [this video]
Critical rasz · 2021-11 · on “Apple announces Self Service Repair”
>Asking manufacturers to stock and sell the individual ICs they use to build products is completely untenable. We can settle at not forcing IC manufacturers into contracts prohibiting third part sales. >Machine assembly and factory validation is best. You mean like the time Apple "factory certified refurbished" by gluing a piece of rubber instead of reflowing detaching ICs? [this video]
Critical rasz · 2023-09 · on “iFixit – We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score”
But you do know that apple authorized service center service is often worse because instead of reflowing components they go for stuffing your device with shoe rubber to push chips with defective connections tighter to the pcb? [this video]