When I took it to an Apple Authorized Repair shop, I was told I would have to pay £804 to get the display fixed – since I was out of warranty and didn’t have Apple Care+. Unsurprisingly, the entire screen went blank three days later. That was the moment I knew it would only last a few days at best.

There was a small line going through the entire display. The top center of the display, just below the camera, turned purple, and some pixels looked completely dead. That’s when I realized that I had made a massive mistake. When I finished the cleaning process, I cleaned up and put the back cover back on, and opened the lid. I must’ve put too much pressure on the display at one point by accident. Unfortunately, separating the back panel from the chassis was more tricky than I initially thought, and while I made sure I was gentle and went as slow as possible. Sometime in mid-June, I decided to take off the back cover and de-dust the machine on my own – I’ve watched several tutorial videos, and even read iFixit’s teardown guides to see the steps required to remove the back panel. Over the summer, I faced a ton of overheating issues due to the dust that built up in the Mac. I just had to wait for my Mac to be built and shipped to me.īefore I go any further, I think it would help a lot to understand my situation if I described the condition of my MacBook Pro that I was trading in. I placed my order and trade-in on the same day, and it was smooth sailing from there. I was given a quote of £430 (~$570) for my machine at the time, which was competitive based on my research for a device with a display issue. I owned a 16-inch 2019 MacBook Pro, and while it worked well most of the time, it had a lot of performance issues due to throttling when connected to an external monitor, and the display was also broken. I was flabbergasted just by looking at the numbers – I’ve seen what the M1 MacBook Pro was capable of doing, and I was very impressed with Apple’s claims on performance improvements and endurance.Īfter spending the next two days convincing myself that I needed to get the new 16-inch model, I decided to use the Apple trade-in to recoup some of my investments. Apple just released the latest 16 and 14-inch MacBook Pros, and everyone is amazed by all the things that Apple just demoed during the keynote.

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