MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

Apple service is usually very good as well -- I've had several products replaced by overnight fedex with no additional cost. Also time machine backup/restore is a godsend for mission critical workstations when you do need a replacement. But ya, most people aren't doing work where time is worth the slight premium.

But there is a product defect class action lawsuit against Apple literally every two years. Apple must treat it as a cost of business at this point.

2009 (macbook display): https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/222100056/ju...

2012 (Iphone display): https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/judge-tosses-lawsuit...

2013 (macbook motherboard): https://www.law360.com/commercialcontracts/articles/485286/a...

2015 (macbook motherboard): https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/09/judge-dismisses-l...

2017 (using refurbished parts): https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-kills-apple-warranty-cl...

2019 (butterfly keyboard): https://www.girardsharp.com/newsroom-news-apple-keyboard-ord...

All of them are dismissed. The last one got settled for $50 million, which is peanuts.

Edit: looks like the judge already dismissed this new one too...

https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_Northern_Distri...

(technically a different class action lawsuit, but it alleges the same facts)

Apple also offer financing on their laptops as well?

Phone's are not heavily discounted with 2 year contracts, definitely not here in Australia anyway. Carriers are going down the route of customers paying the standard device repayment per month (equalling the RRP). The days of device subsidies by taking a plan are fading.

Plans from mobile carriers are becoming suped up pre-paid plans with a device payment tacked on.

>Perhaps I too should transition to something like ubuntu, and just not worry about any of it :D

Something like this (fedora, debian are fine, I've heard arch is fine, no doubt others also) is the /only/ fair approach in comparison it to an apple or windows laptop. It's the only approach _possible_ with microsoft & apple.

Doing fun stuff like re-writing the default kernel scheduler and putting a bug in there on linux is really just not a point against linux in any way when you can (a) choose not to do that and (b) can't choose that at all with windows. Apple? Does anyone compile their own laptop kernel on apple? Common enough on linux because you can make your use as complicated as suits you in all the ways you can't on windows and apple...

It is true that apple sysadmin gets super complicated and hard with the answer usually boiling down to something not far away from: "you can't do what you want even if it used to work fine and you paid apple for the privilege. But you can pay apple an ever bigger subscription to do something related the way they want and stop complaining, apple is so user-friendly! Apple knows best. Freedom is tyranny."

I mourn the death of the Nokia N900. I hope for the oncoming pine phone & pine time revolution because Apple really are every bit as foul as Google. These things aren't yet easy the way laptops really are now.

I've replaced two screens now on my 2019 MBP. The first one happened when I was cleaning the camera before a video call. Apparently I pressed just a bit too hard with the cloth and that pressure broke the connection to the screen and it went black with intermittent white lines. It was under AppleCare so Apple fixed it for $99.

The second time it happened my cat lightly bit the right edge of the screen and that was all it took to kill the entire screen. Again, repaired under AppleCare.

There's clearly a fragility problem with Apple's recent screens. My hypothesis is that in Apple's zeal to make a borderless screen, there's no longer any protection for the connectors at the edge of the screen. A little bit of pressure on the edge could never have killed the older MacBook screens because they had a border of metal around them.

The lesson is that one must be extremely careful with the screens on late-model Apple laptops. Any pressure near the edge beyond a very light touch can completely destroy them. Any dirt or debris on the keyboard deck when you close the laptop can destroy the screen.

I'd love to find some kind of case for the laptop that protects the edge of the screen to make it a little more robust, but it seems like any such solution would be too thick to allow the machine to close.