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2018 MacBook Air battery now user-replaceable

If you’ve suffered through the Parade of Glue and Adhesive that was involved in replacing the batteries on Apple’s MacBook Air notebooks since 2012, you’re going to love this. Apple’s new MacBook Air battery can be replaced by the owner in the notebook. In all other MacBook and MacBook Pro models with a Retina display […]

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Frustrated MacBook/MacBook Pro users can now join class action suit against Apple regarding 2015, 2016, 2017 MacBook, MacBook Pro keyboard failures

If you’re in the mood for litigation, here you go. Following up on our previous story about the model year 2015 and 2016 MacBook Pro notebook keyboards failing, complete with the only way to fix the keyboard being to replace the top case/keyboard mechanism and potentially facing yet another failed keyboard, a number of Apple […]

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Analysis of repair data shows 2016 MacBook Pro keyboards failing at twice the rate of previous models

As spiffy as the 2016 MacBook Pro keyboard was, complete with its new butterfly key-switch action, there’ve been a fair number of complaints about the unit, especially with regards to its failure rates. And they’ve been getting worse. The cool cats over at AppleInsider collected service data for the first year of release of the […]