[ZenPsycho]

i would have thought miniaturisation would make this basically impossible without thousands of dollars of specialist equipment. I’ve never known a mac repair shop to do anything other than replace the whole bosrd. the thing is smaller than a raspberry pi.

spend enough time on hacker news and you’ve seen many srticles complaining specifically about how unrepairable macs are. especially newer ones, that cryptographically brick themselves if they detect tampering.

[larossmann]

>I’ve never known a mac repair shop to do anything other than replace the whole bosrd.

I'm definitely firing my marketing guy...

[raihansaputra]

Any chance you know any repair place with great board repair capability around South East Asia? My MBA 2011 is alive without battery, screens and everything work fine. But the previous repair shop jumped something in a weird way and my backlight doesn't come on with battery plugged in. It's been sitting still for 4 years..

[jklein11]

The hacker news community never ceases to amaze me!

I've been binge-watching your youtube channel. Any chance you could give me a few pointers in how to start to debug this thing?

[jdboyd]

That is what people said, and yet still repair techniques are devised. The cryptographic storage is not tamper proof and thus is all the more reason to repair a board at least well enough to recover your data.

[ZenPsycho]

Well obviously nothing is impossible, but this sorta work is about as close to literally rocket surgery as you can get. Software: difficult, hardware: difficult, thousands of dollars of specialist equipment, and the steady hands of a surgeon. There's a difference between possible and "possible".

also there's a difference between devising a technique for a model, and doing a repair on this specific device. To get to a working technique you probably need to brick a lot of machines.