I'll give you a quick back story: The air was never on my radar. I fix repair and upgrade usually windows laptops but will sometimes take on Macs. My best buys are broken items that I fix myself and can use for years after..
I was just browsing marketplace and a listing popped up under "you might like" 21 miles away and shown was a blurry sideways picture with just "MacBook Air" headline and a reasonable asking price. listing states genius bar ran diagnostics on computer - computer passed screen is bad and will need replacement @ 464$. I sent msg and they actually responded honest if clueless so we met and I bought it AS-IS with unknown specs or anything because they formatted the SSD so it had no OS but I had intentions of replacing the screen and passing it along. it came with no charger but fully charged.
I got it home run apple recovery download and install macOS Monterey set it up then open about this Mac and see its a base model 2020 MacBook Air - 256GB SSD 8GB Ram but the M1 Cpu. Download coconut battery and health is at 98.9% with 63 cycles. Keyboard has no wear nor does the case... SSD Power on hours only read 168.
Issue is the screen has these lines:
Should I take it apart? Absolutely! removed bottom case unplug battery and decided I'm just going to reset the cables for the screen. Plug everything back in boot it up and to my amazement:
I tell you all of this to say this: When I replace screens on windows laptops - I usually go with just Amazon or eBay mid grade screens and I've never had one come back...
Apple on the other hand seems to have far superior displays but they also cost a lot more so I let the client know that I use OEM screens at a substantial cost though.
I never used a aftermarket Retina screen... But am thinking about it if the lines come back on this Air. I don't know if the cable is going out, or if there's a solder issue in the screen or maybe it was honestly just a questionable connection? I'm not sure. But any of you ever use aftermarket screens on an apple laptop? How was your outcome? Is it worth the risk?
Apple diagnostics give it a clean bill of health even when the screen had the lines.
My thoughts are to stick with a used OEM Apple Retina screen vs a new aftermarket screen.. This Air will be my new daily only because of the M1, 15 hours battery life and 2.7 lbs weight.
Thanks!
I was just browsing marketplace and a listing popped up under "you might like" 21 miles away and shown was a blurry sideways picture with just "MacBook Air" headline and a reasonable asking price. listing states genius bar ran diagnostics on computer - computer passed screen is bad and will need replacement @ 464$. I sent msg and they actually responded honest if clueless so we met and I bought it AS-IS with unknown specs or anything because they formatted the SSD so it had no OS but I had intentions of replacing the screen and passing it along. it came with no charger but fully charged.
I got it home run apple recovery download and install macOS Monterey set it up then open about this Mac and see its a base model 2020 MacBook Air - 256GB SSD 8GB Ram but the M1 Cpu. Download coconut battery and health is at 98.9% with 63 cycles. Keyboard has no wear nor does the case... SSD Power on hours only read 168.
Issue is the screen has these lines:
Should I take it apart? Absolutely! removed bottom case unplug battery and decided I'm just going to reset the cables for the screen. Plug everything back in boot it up and to my amazement:
I tell you all of this to say this: When I replace screens on windows laptops - I usually go with just Amazon or eBay mid grade screens and I've never had one come back...
Apple on the other hand seems to have far superior displays but they also cost a lot more so I let the client know that I use OEM screens at a substantial cost though.
I never used a aftermarket Retina screen... But am thinking about it if the lines come back on this Air. I don't know if the cable is going out, or if there's a solder issue in the screen or maybe it was honestly just a questionable connection? I'm not sure. But any of you ever use aftermarket screens on an apple laptop? How was your outcome? Is it worth the risk?
Apple diagnostics give it a clean bill of health even when the screen had the lines.
My thoughts are to stick with a used OEM Apple Retina screen vs a new aftermarket screen.. This Air will be my new daily only because of the M1, 15 hours battery life and 2.7 lbs weight.
Thanks!