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- mg331
Oh, so wonderful...
In the middle of a zoom appointment, my 2018 MBP screen started flickering. Mildly at first, then it got worse, the screen was basically splitting horizontally and displaying the top menu bar in the middle.
Screen eventually went black. Can't even start up with an external monitor and see anything. When I try various safe restart methods, the screen stays black and the startup sound just plays every 10-20 seconds.
Going to the apple store in less than an hour to have it looked at. I'm sure they'll charge me hundreds of dollars to fix something; there's no way I can afford a new laptop right now.
- Not good; Could be internal GPU burned out, which involves the entire logic board. Or perhaps screen or display hinge cable — which is also significant.evilpeacock
- That sucks. But you did the full migration to the mini so that’s good right?monospaced
- Get the work off, that happened to me, it's a slow decay.PhanLo
- ya sounds like GPUpango
- IF Apple wants to do a logic board replacement, and you want to pay for it, then go to a data recovery place first to get the data BEFORE Apple touches it.monospaced
- Sorry to hear that.canoe
- Thanks. I did a Time Machine backup last week. Went to the store, screen is dead. $650 to repair.mg33
- I don't need one right away, but I'm honestly considering upgrading into a refurbished 15 inch M3 Air, which would trounce my 2018 Intel MBP.mg33
- For 650 you can almost buy a mac mini...oey_oey
- Same happened to my old MacBook. I am using it now attached to a different monitor.zaq
- This will still run with an external monitor, but I already have that with the Mac mini.mg33
- same happened to me - i could use an external monitor as a mirror for about a week and then that stopped too..._me_