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I've had issues with my Macs in the past and I'm not excited to see that there's almost never any chance of there being upgradeable RAM or storage in Macs anymore besides the Mac Pro (They need to retain some form of upgradeability and expandability for that, even with the transition to Apple Silicon), but in the end I've never experienced anything as awful as he seems to have encountered or claims is widely defective with any given Apple product I own - and I own a fair amount.

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Yeah, he knows how to repair Macbooks at board level, and I strongly agree with a good amount of his right to repair views, but at the same time people tend to take the things he says and run with them, and also tend to forget that as an independent repair shop, he's seeing the cases that Apple rejects or would charge a lot to repair, so he's gonna see a higher concentration of defective Macs. Odds are the new M1 Macs will drive more upgrades than a buggy Big Sur release. Surprisingly, not every one of Apple's moves is a calculated method to convince you to buy a new computer. I did have to restart it manually once after it got stuck loading nothing on the Setup Assistant screen, but after that restart it installed and works just fine.

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If it's so significantly widespread that there are thousands of people affected, then after awhile Apple may initiate a recall, but I don't recall the last time they did a recall on an issue caused by a software update.įor what it's worth, I have a 2015 MBP 15", and I've been on the Big Sur betas and was able to install the public release yesterday. If it is something that's easily repairable (eg, still with potential data loss but not requiring any disassembly), by erasing and reinstalling macOS on the internal storage, then the Genius Bar is actually able to do that for free, assuming the user isn't capable of handling it themselves. If it truly is corrupted firmware on the BIOS chip then the only way to repair it is board-level replacement of the chip, so if you do it through Apple they'd charge you the fee of replacing the logic board, which is expensive but cheaper than buying an equivalent computer brand new. I didn't say they'd replace it or repair it for free. This subreddit is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc.

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