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4-years old MacBook Pro's logic board failed!
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1635331" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>That's not necessarily a sign of a widespread problem of that particular model. I can guarantee you there is a discussion about a problem someone somewhere had with nearly every Mac ever made, and that discussion has a bare handful of people saying they had a problem. Now Apple has made some lemons, don't get me wrong, and they have done out-of-warranty repairs for many of them. The discussions on Apple's forums for THOSE models run into dozens of pages!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not much better? Oh that is soooo wrong. You are looking at the bare surface specs, something that most PC manufacturers prey on. There are many and major improvements to the underlying hardware, and the benchmarks show it. For a 2010 13" MBP, t<a href="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.4-aluminum-13-mid-2010-unibody-specs.html" target="_blank">he Geekbench scores </a>are:</p><p></p><p>Geekbench 2 (32): 3346 Geekbench 2 (64): 3661</p><p>Geekbench 3 (32): 1306 Geekbench 3 (32): 2166</p><p>Geekbench 3 (64): 1402 Geekbench 3 (64): 2315</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.6-13-mid-2014-retina-display-specs.html" target="_blank">For the 2014</a>:</p><p></p><p>Geekbench 2 (32): 7621 Geekbench 2 (64): 8628</p><p>Geekbench 3 (32): 2820 Geekbench 3 (32): 5849</p><p>Geekbench 3 (64): 3127 Geekbench 3 (64): 6602</p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure that double to triple the performance is indeed much better.</p><p></p><p>As for what to do in your case, I for one wouldn't put the money into fixing it. If it breaks again in 1-2 years, you are back where you were. I know this is discouraging, but this is the risk with electronics in general. Some people get a bad draw. For it to have lasted as long as it did, quite frankly that's a pretty good sign that whatever has caused it to start failing may be a consequence of environment, not a defect. Perhaps a little of both. Laptops are often exposed to a lot of abuse, unintentional perhaps, but they get toted and tossed around a lot. If it's been used and pushed hard, that can take an additional toll. It's the same risk and same thing with any laptop, no matter who makes it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1635331, member: 38864"] That's not necessarily a sign of a widespread problem of that particular model. I can guarantee you there is a discussion about a problem someone somewhere had with nearly every Mac ever made, and that discussion has a bare handful of people saying they had a problem. Now Apple has made some lemons, don't get me wrong, and they have done out-of-warranty repairs for many of them. The discussions on Apple's forums for THOSE models run into dozens of pages! Not much better? Oh that is soooo wrong. You are looking at the bare surface specs, something that most PC manufacturers prey on. There are many and major improvements to the underlying hardware, and the benchmarks show it. For a 2010 13" MBP, t[URL="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.4-aluminum-13-mid-2010-unibody-specs.html"]he Geekbench scores [/URL]are: Geekbench 2 (32): 3346 Geekbench 2 (64): 3661 Geekbench 3 (32): 1306 Geekbench 3 (32): 2166 Geekbench 3 (64): 1402 Geekbench 3 (64): 2315 [URL="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.6-13-mid-2014-retina-display-specs.html"]For the 2014[/URL]: Geekbench 2 (32): 7621 Geekbench 2 (64): 8628 Geekbench 3 (32): 2820 Geekbench 3 (32): 5849 Geekbench 3 (64): 3127 Geekbench 3 (64): 6602 I'm pretty sure that double to triple the performance is indeed much better. As for what to do in your case, I for one wouldn't put the money into fixing it. If it breaks again in 1-2 years, you are back where you were. I know this is discouraging, but this is the risk with electronics in general. Some people get a bad draw. For it to have lasted as long as it did, quite frankly that's a pretty good sign that whatever has caused it to start failing may be a consequence of environment, not a defect. Perhaps a little of both. Laptops are often exposed to a lot of abuse, unintentional perhaps, but they get toted and tossed around a lot. If it's been used and pushed hard, that can take an additional toll. It's the same risk and same thing with any laptop, no matter who makes it. [/QUOTE]
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