#Mid 2010 macbook pro 13 logic board full#
#Mid 2010 macbook pro 13 logic board windows#

However, because of the extraordinarily high cost of repair on Apple products, and the fact that Apple was new to us, we did purchase apple care on all our MacBook Pros and we are grateful that we did so.

I am firmly against purchasing extended warranties on all products other than Apple because, in general, the cost of the product over its useful life renders the cost of the warranty un-economical.

#Mid 2010 macbook pro 13 logic board windows#

The only reason we switched to Apple was because of the abysmal Windows operating system. It occured to me then, as now, that I never purchased such a warranty from Dell, for example, and never had an issue with hardware on any machines other than our MacBook Pros. On a closely related note, I did find it interesting when I switched my company from PCs to Apple, that for each Apple purchase, I essentially had to pay 10% of the purchase price for a three-year warranty (AppleCare) from a company who boasts of its quality control and charges a premium price for hardware that is incredibly expensive to repair, in part, based on it's now obvious undeserved reputation for quality control.

#Mid 2010 macbook pro 13 logic board full#

Indeed my MacBook Pro was ready the following Monday, and it has operated flawlessly for a full 19 days, from Augto August 20, 2013, giving me the kind of confidence one would expect when paying top dollar for a machine with Apple's reputation for quality in the final days running up to expiration of my AppleCare. As result, my trusty Apple repair facility telephone me and let me know that they had ordered another logic board to replace the newly installed board and that my MacBook Pro would be ready following Monday. Unfortunately, when the technician ran the tests on this newly installed logic board, it also failed. This time the logic board came the next day and was promptly installed. I returned to my local authorized Apple repair facility and was told that the logic board needed to be replaced, that I was still under AppleCare, that there would be no charge, but that I would have to wait for Apple to ship a new logic board. The machine worked flawlessly for another 3 whole months, until August 1 of 2013 (fortunately, my AppleCare does not expire until August 26 of 2013, though it cannot be extended), when the logic board failed again. I was assured, however, that the logic boards were thoroughly tested and that if the defect were present in the replacement part, it would be noted in the testing phase and not used in the repair. I expressed specific concern that the replacement would be an identical logic board that would similarly fail. The part finally arrived and my Macbook was repaired. Four days later, I was told that the part was still on backorder and should be there by the end of the week. The following day I was told that Apple had informed the repair facility that the part was on backorder and would take another three days to arrive. The logic board, however, had to be ordered from Apple but would be there the following day. So, I took my MacBook Pro to the authorized repair facility and was told that it failed the logic board test and that the logic board would be replaced at no charge under AppleCare. When the 'Genius' at the 'Genius Bar' says that he has no idea what I'm talking about when I mention an issue raised by thousands of Apple users on hundreds of forums, only to hear from the 'genius' that he has never heard of the issue, 'It requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from' literally saying out loud to anyone in the range of my voice: 'these aren't the droids you're looking for' (my apologies to anyone offended by my conflating 'Moby Dick' and 'Star Wars').

I hate the 'Genius Bar' because I feel that the people at the Genius Bar are either incredibly uninformed or are outright liars. I took it to an Apple authorized facility rather than the Genius Bar. It had all the classic symptoms of the graphics card issue. The logic board on the machine I use first failed in May 2013. Though all have been replaced under AppleCare, it is clear that Apple has a quality control problem.

I have onen mid 2010 MacBook Pro (Purchased in late 2010) that is on its third logic board since May 2013 (and a failed optical drive), and two other that are each on their second logic boards.