Repair Estimate
SOFTWARE REVIVE/RESTORE,RETAIL
Item Number: SF542LL/A Price$ 0.00
Logic Board, M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16 GB, 1 TB
Item Number: 661-34310 Price$ 633.09
HARDWARE REPAIR-LEVEL 1
Item Number: S1490LL/A Price$ 129.00
Touch ID Board, Midnight
Item Number: 661-34701 Price$ 93.62
Total Price:$ 855.71
To say the MBA lasted just over two weeks before it met its match with an old game that pushed the graphics just past the limit of what it could handle. I am lucky that it happened within the first month so that Apple will still honour the warranty and give me the option of getting AppleCare+. There are two lines of thought that I can have with this. its either that Apple didn’t do a very good job of doing any soft of testing the MBA they were setting refurbished so its literally if it turns on its good. or Apple products are paper thin in regards to functionality and break by looking at them wrong or in my case running some software that Apple doesn’t sell on the App Store so it broke. I guess the 0 for AppleCare+ is far cheaper than 5 to get it fixed the next time I try and run some actual software on it. And I guess if you have the care package you’d be less likely to worry if this program is just too much for AppleSilicon to handle.