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MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

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Post by diebeforei485 »

scottydelta wrote: post #143
mkagenius wrote: post #66

My 10 day old Macbook with M1 Pro died suddenly last week. In India we don't have Genius bars like in the States, what we have is a franchise model where in small repair shops are given the right to repair (only part to part replacement) and they probably get some commission. The guys in these shops are very afraid of Apple and its policies. Even things which normally would get fixed in Genius bars without any second…

Had to deal with this recently. My iPhone's screen stopped working suddenly right before I was due to travel. Apple authorized service center in India said it will take 2-3 weeks to send and get it back from repair center. I decided to take it with me on my travel and just strolled into an apple store in Dubai mall the next day. It was fixed in literally 40 minutes there. It's surprising how Dubai with such a low pop…

Lots of countries (including India) make it difficult for Apple to open their own stores.

Dubai allows Apple to open stores freely without needing local partners, and has the added benefit of being a travel hub, so the size of the market is far bigger than the local population. It makes perfect sense.

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Post by jrmg »

asdff wrote: post #396
thehappypm wrote: post #81

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Is the screen more slammable (for lack of a better word)? My HP has these two rubber stoppers that prevent the Screen from slamming the keyboard.

Macs have always had that, but the newer ones have this issue where the screen hits the keyboard. Never happened with the older fatter models from a decade ago.

My MacBook ten years ago quickly developed a very obvious, when off, imprint of the key shapes on its screen.

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Post by lynndotpy »

I got a 14" MBP M1 recently. It felt so incredibly fragile that I was anxious moving it or opening it.

I'd really like to emphasize the word "incredibly". That is, I don't think I could credibly describe how fragile these laptops are without having one as an example.

I already considered Macbooks to be a fragile series of laptops, given longtime users insist their insurance-subscription "AppleCare+" is a necessity. (This is not normal for laptops.)

So, I searched to see if it had durability issues, and found this, and immediately returned it. Not worth the risk!

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

jdshaffer wrote: post #272
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #253

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I needed a new laptop last year. I decided to care less about my computer and so I chose not to get another Mac. Got a small Lenovo instead. Runs great with Linux. Does exactly everything I need it to do.

I've been pondering doing something similar myself. If you don't mind my asking, which Lenovo did you get and which Linux variant does it seem to play nice with? :-)

Ideapad 5 pro with an AMD proc. it's the 14" variant. I am not near it right now, so I can't give you specifically what model. Got it on sale at Costco. Running Pop_os. The newer Linux kernels have support of amd_pastate so battery life is good.

Previous Mac was a 13" Macbook Pro if anyone is keeping score. Loved it, but just didn't want or need something that expensive.

Re: MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

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Post by bergenty »

nwatson wrote: post #165
bergenty wrote: post #137

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Wait what? What do you mean return to socal

Vehicle likely had to be transported from Tucson, Arizona to SoCal == Southern California to a factory or more fully-equipped Tesla repair facility.

Yeah but that incredulous for a windshield replacement.

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Post by calsy »

intrasight wrote: post #177
sseagull wrote: post #138

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I mean, unless you are an extreme outlier, you spend more time on the ground than on an airplane. Why would you optimize for working on an airplane over your typical workday? For me personally, 99.9% of my work is done at my desk (1), so why not have a more powerful, upgradeable, repairable computer to work with? (1) I'm not hip enough to work from coffee shops

I too don't get this transition to working on laptops. What a crappy form factor. I do have two of them - and they get used about 2 hours per month on average.

Would you be surprised if I told you that laptops have ports that allow for external devices like a display/keyboard/mouse.

Would it also surprise you that people would prefer a device that they can be used anywhere, rather than a fixed location.

The only way you could not get this transition is if you've never had to go anywhere outside your home.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

parasubvert wrote: post #380
josephcsible wrote: post #364

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GP is saying that insurance makes sense for things too expensive to replace on your own, like houses and cars, but not cheaper things like consumer electronics.

Consumer electronics in the thousands of dollars I would definitely want insurance for.

You and NorwegianDude wrote the same thing.

>can't risk paying for it yourself.

is intended to mean

>can’t afford for themselves.

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Post by tomxor »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #50

> it is frustrating that apple doesn’t believe its costumers. What's notable here is there is 49 pages of seemingly mostly "me too". It should give Apple at the very least pause for reevaluation of their stance. One guy saying "I didn't do it man" is not evidence, but a clearly non coordinated global trend of people claiming the same thing? Pretty compelling.

What's more surprising to me is that they haven't yet deleted the thread. This has happened many times in the past (customers complaining about widespread defects on Apple's support forum) and Apple usually deletes the threads or moderates them down enough to make it look plausibly deniable.

My guess is that the current class action will probably look unfavourably upon such an action given there are more eyeballs on the matter and people have probably already scraped it by this point.

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Post by harry8 »

abrouwers wrote: post #418
harry8 wrote: post #405

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T480s 3.5yrs old, out of warranty, ex-corporate cost me USD$430 running ubu 22.04 on a 4 core 8th gen core i5 & intel gfx is getting me 10 hours of battery life without having replaced the battery. (power settings set to Power Saver in the very obvious gui menu above shutdown). I did shove in more ram and a bigger ssd. Meh, 8G & 250G would have been enough fwiw. Gnome desktop is a thing I now find really polished and…

I mean, x1 carbon (new) isn't much cheaper (in fact, more expensive, at the time of my googling) than a MacBook Air. The linux ecosystem (which I love) has it's own fair share of problems - gnome vs. KDE, deb vs. rpm, X vs. Wayland, pulseaudio vs. pipewire, systemd vs. (the world). Sure, installing ubuntu and not worrying about any of it is a great option, but I think you've painted a slightly too pretty picture :-)…

Huh? We've been asked for our experience and that was mine. I feel strongly that if I were using fedora or debian that experience would be strikingly similar.

Gnome vs kde (and there's /plenty/ of other options) is a choice, make it. Done. No further issues. And as a happy gnome guy I'm very sure KDE is excellent and will serve well.

deb vs rpm. That choice is made when you choose your distro, never to be revisited or cared about again. Likewise pulseaudio, systemd are chosen when you chose your desktop and distro respectively and you don't have to think about them on your laptop again. X vs Wayland - whatever comes with your distro you use if you're even aware of it.

But yes you can complicate it all as much as suits you if you have the need or want to do so which you basically can't with apple, so... And your knowledge then translates to the pi or other SBC so that's pretty cool too. And to your servers or ones you work with for money. This is not a negative imho.

Go to any kernel conference and you'll see all kinds of laptops for sure, some hilariously eccentric. Linus used a mac 15 years ago too (powerpc iirc). Yet you'll see Thinkpads are always, clearly and obviously the most commonly used by a large margin unless things have changed dramatically during pandemic times, which I kind of doubt.

Anyway I bought a T480s second hand for peanuts, dumped ubu on it and have been contemplating its beauty and utility since. Apple gear is a _much_ bigger sysadmin headache for me (and it isn't close) but might be less so for you if that's what you know and understand. This is /my/ experience of it.

Linux on the laptop in 2022 is flipping great. Shhhhh, don't tell.

Re: MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

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Post by asdff »

jrmg wrote: post #432
asdff wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Macs have always had that, but the newer ones have this issue where the screen hits the keyboard. Never happened with the older fatter models from a decade ago.

My MacBook ten years ago quickly developed a very obvious, when off, imprint of the key shapes on its screen.

Maybe it depended on use but I had this 2012 mbp that would be shoved into a backpack with heavy textbooks for 7 years before graduating to a lighter packing in the backpack. Never had issues, but the 2020 intel macbook air I bought that just sat on my desk during covid did develop those imprints within a few weeks it felt like.
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