[SOLVED] Macbook Air A1466

[Markverhyden]

Only last week I asked a client if she had a backup for her dead PC. "Yes", she said. "I have an iPad."

It's amazing how many stop using their computers when smart devices really improved the amount of storage.

 

[glennd]

I dug up a DP to hdmi cable and tried the various startup key combinations and got exactly nowhere. The result is the same image on the internal screen and no signal on the external screen. So I'm stuck on what to do next. Another conversation with the customer and I'm not convinced the main board is 100% and what it was going to cost to find out. I suggested it's time to hand it over to an Apple repair shop, she agreed.

 

[sapphirescales]

So I'm stuck on what to do next.

Unplug the LVDS cable so the internal screen is no longer detected. That will force the computer to default to the external display.

 

[glennd]

Unplug the LVDS cable so the internal screen is no longer detected. That will force the computer to default to the external display.

Yes, you mentioned that earlier and I forgot to try it. Oh well, I don't regret passing on this job.

 

[lan101]

It's amazing how many stop using their computers when smart devices really improved the amount of storage.

Yeah it seems like in the last 4 to 5 years it's really went up a ton. I went from a galaxy S7 edge with 32gb to a note 10 with 512gb. I doubt I'll come close to maxing out the 512 tho.

 

[lan101]

Yes, for all intents and purposes, it's "gone" for 99.99% of people. Most people aren't going to pay thousands of dollars to try to recover data from a dead logic board. Hundreds? Maybe. Thousands? Forget it. Especially Mac users, who mostly use their computers as expensive web browsers. And let's be honest, $2,000 to transfer the SSD and T2 chip to another logic board would be a bargain.

Apple's goal is to make as crappy quality computers as possible, charge as much for them as possible, and sucker people into paying monthly for everything. There is no legitimate reason for soldering the SSD to the board and tying it to a T2 chip. The "security" excuse is BS. These aren't computers sold to the CIA. There's nothing wrong with having a drive that you can pull the data off of with another computer. And even if you needed security, that can be done through software if necessary. No, the ONLY reason Apple has done this is so people lose their data and hopefully pay them monthly for iCloud backups going forward.

Only Louis Rossman gets those customers lol.

 

[labtech]

Just one more comment about data recovery service being expensive as in thousands.

Things have changed a lot in the past 10+ years. There are excellent data recovery companies that provide quality service for hundreds, not thousands.

Many of those smaller companies are operated by really good technicians who left the big companies charging thousands and came up with a business model that charges hundreds.

Gotta stop falling pray to the fancy advertisement by the big companies and getting burned.

 

[Do It All Computers]

Does that iPad have a back up beeper? Asking for a friend...