Remember – don’t get your MacBook wet!

Good morning,

Water and electronics don’t mix – I’ve talked about it before but I want to discuss a few points again. Is your MacBook waterproof? Not a chance.

It’s more common than you might think; but we receive items in for repair on a daily basis that show signs of liquid damage and without doubt if you get your iPhone wet, you’re bound to see problems unless it is addressed.

My guess is that some of these customers don’t even know that they had a liquid spill or had any contact with water/soda/coffee whatsoever. Sometimes is the unknowing fault of a child or household pet that inadvertently spills or “leaks” onto a keyboard.

For example, here’s a logic board that came out of a 2014 MacBook Pro with Retina Screen; and the device was not displaying video.

If you look closely, and I know that it’s hard to tell; but can you see that chip that is on the logic board that says “Apple 2010”? (It’s actually upside down) It’s about dead center in the picture…there is an IC that is on top of it with slightly green corrosion that is growing from some sort of liquid that got onto the board.

I know, the picture doesn’t do it much justice, and I even almost missed it. For scale, that component just below it is the headphone jack port, which is very small in itself…this was a minute amount of corrosion on the MacBook Pro Logic Board that was causing a major amount of problems!

So I cleaned it up and guess what? Video displayed back on the screen again. This would have been a $680 repair had this customer went directly to Apple…but it was just took me one hour of labor to complete it. The customer makes out and Mission Repair saves the day.

We offer a full-line of liquid damage repairs; but to be realistic, not all of these are repairable. If your MacBook was sitting at the bottom of the lake for week, it’s probably not repairable. But if you spill a cup of coffee on the keyboard of your computer; turn it off quickly and give us a call. We will do our best to save your day too!

Take care, Ryan

 

MacBook Retina Screen repairs – new lower price!

Hello there, it’s a pleasant morning here at the Mission Repair base.

Today we announced new lower pricing on MacBook Retina Screen replacements – and we are getting them in and out of our repair center in record time.

Have you ever seen one of these displays? I know that most of you aren’t really concerned with the technology behind these products much, and that’s understandable. But look at the width of this 15″ LCD. This is the glass and LCD that displays the image on a 15″ MacBook Pro Retina Display. I mean, this thing is THIN!

When I stood this up on the table, it was wobbling and flopping all over the place. It might not have helped that this was a broken screen that was already removed from a customer’s unit, but heck it’s just amazing to me that technology has come so far. In fact, in the very recent past, these screens were about 1/4″ thick. A “clunky” screen by today’s standards…and I’m talking about just 3 years ago!

So there’s an art to these repairs and we’ve got it solved. Not only that, we’ve lowered our price as we have found a better supplier and are buying in much larger bulk so that means price decreases for our customers and money savings.

Questions? I have customer service representatives standing by. 866-638-8402.

Take care, Ryan