MacBook Pro Retina 2018
No Upgrades
After purchase from new
Flash drive, Wi-Fi and Memory
are all soldered to the logic board.
Apple is going out of it's way to make it very difficult and in some cases totaly impossible to get replacement components for logic board repairs for 2018, 2019, 2020 MacBooks
A1989 2018 MacBook Pro 13” Touch bar
Apple has confirmed that the third-generation keyboard on 2018 MacBook Pro models
is equipped with a "membrane" to "prevent debris from entering the butterfly mechanism.
Problems
At present, the most serious issue with T2-equipped Macs is that they cannot boot from network volumes. If your Macs need to support network booting (NetBoot, NetInstall, or NetRestore), then they must not have T2 processors. Apple hasn’t, as yet, provided any workaround for this.
Any damage to the T2 chip could result in it being unable to decrypt the contents of internal SSDs. As a result, Apple stresses the importance of maintaining good external backups. You can’t, for example, simply pop the SSD out and access it from a drive enclosure using another computer (in any case, most of these SSDs are now soldered in too!). Because keys from the T2 chip are used in the encryption process, decryption can only occur when that exact same chip is able to perform the decryption (although some forensic tools may now be able to work around such encryption).
The combination of T2, FileVault, APFS, and soldering-in of SSDs is probably going to make recovery of data from an internal SSD practically impossible, for the foreseeable future.
2018 MacBook Pro T2 Chip can erratically kernel panic the system.
The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly,
Why does it seem like Apple rushed a beta-quality product out the door?
Because that’s what Apple did!
Shortly after release the firmware had to be updated to deal with a performance-throttling bug.
The kernel panics are another issue.
Is the 2018 MacBook Pro ready for prime time for a pro user depending on it to not go haywire?
Brand new OEM Apple
A1989, A1998 2018
MacBook Pro 13" & 15" screen assembly
Space gray and Silver
includes shipping, duty, tax and instalation
Order in 10 to 15 days
to remove the back and blow the dust out
from the fans and heatsinks $50
If the logic board fails
No Data recovery
If you in the market for a newer MacBook Pro
Buy the
2020 13" Intel MacBook Pro
Or
2021 13" M1 MacBook Pro
Avoid all 15" and 16" MacBook Pro's 2016 to 2019