MacBook Pro Retina

2018

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With any Warranty/Exchange hardware and/Or Repairs to logic boards the client is responsible for all shipping costs.

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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.

  1. 1The new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models support DisplayPort at High-Bit Rate 3 (HBR3),

  2. 2a signal standard of both DisplayPort 1.3 and DisplayPort 1.4. Apple says the dedicated Radeon Pro graphics can drive up to two 5K displays at 60Hz, each over a single stream.

  3. 3The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models support DisplayPort at High-Bit Rate 2 (HBR2),

  4. 4a signal standard of DisplayPort 1.2. This is a limitation of the Iris Plus Graphics 655 in these models, as Intel's integrated GPUs do not support DisplayPort 1.4.


What that means:

  1. 5The new 15-inch MacBook Pro theoretically supports DisplayPort 1.4, which Apple confirmed, but at least for now, it still can't drive an 8K display. It could be possible with VESA's lossless Display Stream Compression standard, perhaps, but it's unclear if this can be enabled down the road.

  2. 6For now, then, the new 13-inch and 15-inch models have the same compatibility with external displays as the previous-generation MacBook Pro: up to two 5K displays or up to four 4K displays on the 15-inch model, and up to one 5K display or up to two 4K displays on the 13-inch model.



For comparison, 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro models are equipped with Intel's JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 controller, which supports DisplayPort 1.2.


In related news, Apple has also confirmed that all four Thunderbolt 3 ports on the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar are now full speed, compared to only the two left-facing ports on the equivalent 2016 and 2017 models.

T2 Chip, Benefits

The current benefits specific to the T2 chip are in improved security, the potential for better internal SSD performance, enhanced tone mapping in the FaceTime HD camera, and in the case of MacBook Pros, the Touch Bar.


The T2 chip integrates the System Management Controller (SMC), an image signal processor, an audio controller, an SSD controller, and a secure enclave processor. Although future versions of macOS will undoubtedly enable more features of the T2, perhaps including facial recognition, those currently available fall into three groups: security, storage, and image.


Security features include:

  1. Encrypted storage. All internal SSD storage in Macs with T2 chips is encrypted, either using keys based on the T2 chip alone, or in conjunction with a key supplied as part of FileVault. As the latter appears to come at no performance cost, everyone using a Mac with a T2 chip should enable FileVault. There doesn’t appear to be an option to disable the default encryption performed by the T2.


  1. Secure Boot. There are three levels provided, ranging from Full to None, and you can additionally disallow booting from external storage. These are configured in the Startup Security Utility, which is accessed from Recovery mode.



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?

Apple's 2018 MacBook Pros attempt to solve flexgate, without admitting it exists?


In 2018, a number of MacBook Pro users—with models from 2016 onwards—discovered a serious design flaw that causes the screen to fail after repeated opening and closing of the laptop over the course of a few years. The ensuing scandal was, of course, dubbed Flexgate, after the flex display cables causing the problem.


Despite Apple’s refusal to acknowledge the issue, though, their latest MacBook Pros have a longer cable that may be attempting to make up for previous shortcomings.

Apple, in an effort to make their laptops even thinner and sleeker, is using thin, fragile flex cables to connect the display to the display controller board beneath the touch bar. In this space-saving design, the thin cable wraps around a small circuit board where it is pulled taut as the laptop opens and closes. After a year or two of opening and closing the laptop, the cable will wear down, causing the display to start failing with a distinctive stage-light effect.

And since the cable is integrated into the screen, it cannot be simply swapped out—the entire screen must be replaced (a $900 part). Apple has yet to acknowledge the issue or extend their warranty to affected users.

Another design defect exacerbated by Apple’s insistence on making products thinner at all costs.


However, it has been found the 2018 cable was, in fact, a full 2mm longer. Since this change appears in both the 15” model and 13” model, it’s plausible this change is present in all, 2018 MacBook Pros.



This is significant because it gives the backlight cable more room to wrap around the board and not come into contact with the board as the laptop is opened past 90 degrees, this contact is what led to the wear, tear, and eventual failure of the cable—though the exact cause of the failure is tough to pin down.


it’s hard to say for sure how much of the problem is the cable being in close proximity to the board and how much of it is the length of the cable

The longer cable definitely gives more room to breathe around the board, but it’s still in such close contact with the board that it’s impossible to tell whether it’s rubbing on the board at any point.” In other words: this could solve the problem, or it could just delay the cable’s inevitable failure a bit longer.


You can see in the photo's there is dramatically more room with the longer cable. We’ll have to wait another year or two to see how this actually affects the prevalence of Flexgate issues on 2018 MacBook Pros.


Worst of all, this implies that Apple knew about the Flexgate issues before public backlash hit its fever pitch, and still refuses to even acknowledge the issue, let alone take responsibility and offer free repairs. In fact, multiple people claim Apple has deleted support threads regarding the issue on Apple.com, attempting to sweep this under the rug rather than offer an extended warranty program to those affected.

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Symptoms are as follows


1   No power after liquid spill

2   No Backlight on screen after liquid spill

3   Distorted display or random colour’s on screen and fault is not from the screen or cable

4   Does not boot to desktop or shows white screen

5   LED light in the front is constantly ON and the Mac doesn't boot up

6   Beeping sound

7   No display on the screen but when connected to an external display shows desktop

8   Not detecting battery or hard drive

9   Short circuit on Logic Board

10 Constant Restarts and fault has been diagnosed to be from the Logic Board




Liquid damage tips


after the spill

Turn you’re MBP off

flip it upside down

  “if you can” unscrew the back and disconnect the battery.


That’s it!


Now ring or email us to book your MBP in for repair


“DO NOT TRY TO switch it on”


if you have tried to boot up/power on

something will get fried.


(Don’t believe the old myth that rice will magically repair your Logic Board)

















With any Warranty/Exchange hardware and/Or Repairs to logic boards the client is responsible for all shipping costs.

Liquid spill damage, Repair 

Ultrasonic  cleaning.

Microscope inspection

Micro soldering component level repair

Logic board repairs A1989, A1990, $700 no tax


If the Logic Board is unrepairable there will be no fee.


Estimated price is subject to change, especially when liquid damage is concerned or suspected due to so many parts that can be affected.


Best advise,

if your in the market for a newer MacBook Pro

and your looking at the 2018 model,


Buy the new 2019 MacBook Pro instead.


Flash drive, Wi-Fi and Memory

are all soldered to the logic board.

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