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Fun fun- fricken coffee spill on keyboard- Any fix? Or just worth buying another Mac?
The problem with these rMBPs is if the display gets trashed like this one, it tends to cost as much as a nice example from the same year in many cases, give or take. Newer ones tend to be uglier; displays somehow remain expensive, yet the machines depreciated faster than anyone who bought them new will admit. Sometimes you can get donor machines with a good LCD, but a lot of Retina “donors” need the LCD for this reason :/. Retina LCD repairs? Ew no, this sells the Applecare alone even for DIYers. The holdouts avoided a nightmare, the people who bought them took the hit because they’re hard to sell now because nobody wants these MacBooks. If this is a 2016-17 (2018/19 are BETTER, but not fully immune), I’m just going to come out and say it: SKIP THE $$$ LCD AND RUN. Move to a newer MacBook! It’s a matter of when (not IF) the keyboard turns into an expensive repair, and when it goes vintage (and Apple no longer does the free repair/has parts), fugetabout it; it’s a parts donor. If you’re adamant on a keeping up to date, get a M1 MBP 13 or 14/16"* with 16GB/1TB (13) or 32GB/1TB (14/16”). New or used, but make sure you get a good price break on a used version of the same system. Please, please try the 16" in person! As someone who rocked a 2009 17" until the bitter end (and was part of the crowd who pushed the matter until we got that M1 Pro/Max 16"), these are NOT for people who aren’t committed to carrying a monster of a laptop. I’m not going to say you shouldn’t at least try to find a new LCD, but don’t get so invested in this you will not give up and pay more for a display then you would for a 2018-19 replacement system with 32GB/1TB (SSD is soldered). Ideally you may want to try for an M1 Mac since Intel anything is on borrowed time officially but even as a 15" 2014 owner cut me the right price and I now own a 15" 2015 Retina. You will not catch me with a 2016-19, those things are just expensive with very little substance (and need a bag of dongles) to justify the price over a road tested 2015 AMD/Iris 15" 2015 with the 512GB SSD.*You technically CAN upgrade this on the 2015, but get at least 512GB if money permits. Apple’s SSDs aren’t cheap, so get one which will last.
