hovscorpion12 said:

With the M-series chips, the logic board and motherboard are the same. I’m assuming repair/replace cost is over $1,000.

togg said:

I had a mbpr 2012, had to replace the logic board after 6 years, the SSD also wore out after 7 years. So if I buy I'm very interested to know the price of the repair. I went to a apple seller today and they couldn't tell me...

I'm reading 1k usd here and there, does anybody have an idea?

Fishrrman said:

"Official number" ??

How about "lots of $$$" ???
As in, "if you have to ask, you probably can't afford it..."

BTW, the drives on these are not "replaceable" as an item.
Everything is "on the motherboard".

Fishrrman said:

Here's an example.
My MacBook Pro 14" started making "ticking"/"clicking" sounds when touched on either side of the trackpad. There's a reddit thread about it, along with a posted video (not mine).

I took it to the genius bar this past Friday, and they sent it out for repair (got an email saying the repair depot has it this morning).

Cost on the repair invoice was:
Labor: $100
Flat rate 2 repair, MBP 14": $628 (trackpad replacement)

It's under warranty so no charge to me.
But still... $728 for a trackpad replacement.

(unlike the butterfly keyboard MacBooks, the trackpad/haptic engine on the MBP 14" and 16" models looks to be easily replaceable...)

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MajorFubar said:

The elephant in the room that no one talks about is that by the time the SSDs on modern Macbooks wear out, you won't be able to buy new replacements, no matter how much you throw at it. On older Macs, when something wore out like the hard drive, you just replaced it. Technically you could keep repairing the things forever (Luke Miani covered this topic in his video 'Why Macs last forever'). That's how I ended up keeping my 2011 iMac for 11 years and my 2010 Mac Mini for 12 years and counting.

However I plan to sell my Mac Studio Max and M1 Macbook Air no later than 5 years from purchase, on the grounds that when something wears out they become completely worthless doorstops because they can't be repaired. Annoyingly that means Apple has completely won the war against those of us who in the past steadfastly resisted upgrading 5+ year old hardware because our machines were frankly still good enough.

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MikeDr206 said:

I want to say that when had the logic board on a MBP 16 Intel replaced recently, the tech quoted something over $1,000 if we hadn’t had AppleCare.

jav6454 said:

Unknown but it wouldn't surprise me if it were $800.

Mlrollin91 said:

I had several Logic Board replacements in my 2017 21.5" iMac. All covered under warranty, but each one was $548 + $79 in labor. This was in 2019/2020 on a much cheaper device. I'd imagine its $900-1000 at minimum.

togg said:

I can afford it. But I doubt the planet itself can afford to have *every* electronic replaced every 6 years.


Yes. The trackpad assembly is one of the main 3 parts of the computer together with screen and motherboard. I'll have to replace the trackpad of my current dell xps hackintosh and the part itself is 30$.

That's exactly it. We have a 2007 iMac at home, works perfectly fine, no need to update it for most things. Let alone newer machinese. We replaced a backlight once, super small part, and that was it. We can also upgrade to SSD to make it faster.
The soldered SSD is the definitive nail in the coffin, they will wear out, there's no way around it. Also worth noting that the rest of the industry is doing similar things. The SSD is not soldered but buying parts after 3 years is already very hard.


Exactly! it went up from 750 to more than 1k now. Still curious about an exact number but imho it could be 1100$. For a repair.

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