MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

Post by rowanG077 » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 11:06 AM UTC

rowanG077 wrote: post #516

thomas-st wrote: post #61

My 14" M1 MacBook Pro screen repair cost was $809. Supervisor refused the waive the fee. The screen cracked for no apparent reason and then completely stopped working. Some firm already filed a class action complaint, and I submitted my details: https://classlawdc.com/2021/08/04/m1-macbook-screen-crack-in...

While I believe $800 is way too much I do actually believe the screen is an extremely expensive component. It's a 120hz microled screen with a very good webcam. I wouldn't be surprised it's the most expensive part on a mbp.

Post by calsy » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 11:51 AM UTC

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My work is done almost 100% at a desk, in different rooms of my home depending on the season (some get too cold or too hot) or on a whim. A desktop won't do. And sometimes I really take my laptop to somewhere else.

Different strokes for different folks and all, but it's hard for me to imagine this. I have 3 large monitors, so even if I had a laptop I would want to move those around as well. After working with large monitors, I don't know how anyone gets serious work done on a laptop screen. I do have a laptop, but it is relatively inexpensive and used mostly as a thin client to my desktop (as others have mentioned). Edit: I wil…

Post by Maursault » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 12:08 PM UTC

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It is possible many or most of the reported screen cracks are due entirely to thermal changes. The M1 MacBook displays are made of glass . Glass is a poor thermal conductor and rapid changes in temperature will create stress fractures in the glass that will eventually crack. When heated, thin glass begins to crack. Let's say, for argument's sake, the OP has their desk in front of a window. At night, temperatures go d…

I'm sitting in a car with 150k miles on it, with the original windshield. It has one chip from when I followed a gravel truck too closely once. Sometimes I even take it to a carwash in the summer with a baking hot windshield. Sometime I turn on the heater in the winter while it's snowing. Amazingly, engineers have designed a glass product that is as heavy, thick, coated, whatever... To survive common usage for a deca…

Post by ok123456 » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 12:28 PM UTC

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For most people, you'll have to take it to the mechanic and it'll cost you an arm and a leg... wait that sounds familiar...

A vehicle needing a repair that costs 50% of its new MSRP is extremely rare, outside of a few electric vehicle battery packs. In addition, when a vehicle reaches the point where any common repair costs more than it's current market value, it's basically considered worthless and only desperate people buy them. How long does it take an apple product to reach that point? A year?

Post by AmVess » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 12:36 PM UTC

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I'd have to agree. I don't know how many companies supply Apple with MBA M1 screens, but I've had mine since they came out. Dragged it all over the states and still no crack. I always open it in the middle, and I don't wrench it open. For some reason, some people don't understand that thin and light doesn't mean indestructible.

Just because it didn't happen to you doesn't mean that other people are necessarily liars.