Apple Finds Issue With Logic Board In Some 2018 MacBook Airs, Offers Free Repair

Apple says a "very small number" of MacBook Air models have an issue with the main logic board and can be replaced at no cost to customers. 9to5Mac reports: Apple's memo to repair staff notes that it has identified "an issue" with the main logic board specifically in Retina, 13-inch, 2018 MacBook Air models with certain serial numbers. Apple will be emailing customers with machines with the serial numbers they've identified as being affected, otherwise customers can take their machine to Apple Stores or authorized repair staff to have their devices checked out. Apple's documents list symptoms as issues with "power," but do not elaborate on what problems users are experiencing exactly. A quick search online for problems with the 2018 MacBook Air logic board shows reports back to when the device first launched with some users' machines not able to power on at all. The affected machines will be covered for four years from the original purchase date. Users that think they might be experiencing the issue can take their MBA to Apple Stores or an Apple authorized service provider.

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[Anonymous Coward]

If you switch to Linux to solve a problem, you now have two problems

Oh really

[SuperKendall]

At least if it's put of warranty, you can pull the hard drive and recovery your data for virtually no cost

The only thing that has failed on various Apple systems I own, is a third party SSD I installed on an older laptop. Totally dead, cannot be read by anything... so there goes your "recover your data at virtually no cost" plan.

If you don't have regular backups you've got nothing, regardless of how easy it is to pull a drive from a system.

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[Tough Love]

The warranty expired on windup Apple apologist StupidKendall some years back then your bladder immediately failed, Apple style.

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[Tough Love]

I love it when you walk straight into a lamppost and mutilate your already ugly nose even worse.

The crap continues...

[dstyle5]

iPhone "touch disease", poor quality "butterfly" keyboards, Mac Pro Laptops with wires that break so your screen is FUBAR'd and now a "Logic board" issue. You get what you pay for Apple customers, poor quality engineering. But it is shinyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! :-)

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[dstyle5]

Sorry to burst your bubble AC, but the issues above are all design or engineering flaws. Given the large amount of money Apple charges for its products, they should not be riddled with these kinds of issues. Seems like you are an Apple guy as you call me stupid, yet people keep buying expensive, poorly designed products from Crapple.

I've had 4 Samsung work phones and none of them had any hardware issues. Yes the Note 7 was a terribly designed product, but Samsung stepped up to the plate, gave their mea c

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[antdude]

Older Apple products had hardware issues too! Or maybe they were less?

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[organgtool]

You forgot about their recent recall of Macbook Pro batteries [petapixel.com]. Apple is on fire!

Bets whether it affects all 2018 MBAs eventually?

[dgatwood]

If I've learned anything from experiencing failures of various Apple products that are seemingly identical to known problems, but in devices built several weeks outside of the supposedly affected range for those failures (e.g. the iPhone 6s premature battery failure), it is that Apple's serial number ranges are probably a guess at best.

Just saying.

apple doesn't repair boards

[Anonymous Coward]

they throw them in the bin and give you a new one, and no, you can't get your data transferred or backed up

Apple's very small number

[Tough Love]

Apple says "a very small number." We think: "a very large number." Because we know that hasbeen Apple has forgotten everything good it used to know, and only remembers how to spin, twist, distort and flat out lie.

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[Tough Love]

Thanks for your one-button comment from your one-button mind. Apple deserves you.

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[mlw4428]

You seem really overly angry about Apple. You're not using their products, you're not a customer, what do you care? You're frothing at the mouth angry because people, what, don't like your greybox setup or something? Why are you so angry about people's choice of hardware? How does it really impact you? Why are you still using Slashdot? It's outdated, clunky, and has a very tiny user base...sites like Reddit offer so much more. Should Redditors get mad and harass you for using an outdated, POS website? Grow

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[Tough Love]

You seem agitated when Apple is justly criticized on social media, is that because you are an Apple lapdog?

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[mlw4428]

Sure, if that's what you have to believe. I'm a "lapdog." I'm also not the one who looks like a complete retard, upset about some perceived slight or arguing about Apple's "quality" so incessantly. "OHH HUM DRUM APPLE PRODUX SO BAD HUB BUB BUB BUB". Have you stopped and considered that one of the largest technology companies in the world has its customers and continue to have them despite what you may think? That your opinion matters about as much as a dead hobo lost in the woods? Scratch that, the death of

Most but not all

[AndyKron]

It just works. Most of them.

Who Cares

[polesaw]

Who cares if the quality of their products has gone to shit? Their profit margins are through the roof!

Louis Rodman

[labnet]

Just search Louis Rodman on YT if you want some apple repair entertainment.