UK MAC REPAIR is NOT an Apple Authorised Service Provider and so I am not bound to follow Apple rules.

How UK MAC REPAIR operates:

    1. I repair your computer cost effectively and in-house by fixing what broke. I don’t sell computers – I fix them.
    2. Allow customers to get more value from their existing investment
    3. I source memory, SSD, keyboards, screens, batteries from the open market and from the same companies that make them for Apple.
    4. Provide great service and very competitive prices
    5. Unlike Apple I am not an evil empire!

      UK MAC REPAIR is a bullshit free zone – I find the cause of failure and fix it. Resistor dead? Replace resistor. Chip dead? Replace chip. Get the idea?

How Apple & Apple Authorised Service Providers operate:

  1. Apple designed the computer case but the circuitry is quite standard stuff much of it being a copy & paste from previous designs and similar to many notebook computers. They have created a nice front end window system running on a well trusted Unix operating system. The manufacturing is outsourced.
  2. They do not repair your computer. They send it to a central service centre adding days of delay.
  3. The service centres only replace whole boards. e.g. logic board, keyboard etc
  4. Repairs under warranty can still leave you out of pocket to the tune of  $1000+ for a new logic board if they see any liquid stain on it – even if its working perfectly!
  5. Even when Apple sold you a failing keyboard and they say they will replace it – they wont unless you computer is perfect – got a liquid stain in there – you pay $1000+.
  6. Keep designing less upgradeable/repairable computers – now both memory and storage are soldered in and can’t be upgraded. Spill a drink – they charge you 90% of new laptop and you lose your data.
  7. Keep designing thinner computers so the screen will crack with a moderate finger press.
  8. Keep spares prices (e.g. logic board) artificially high to encourage buying new again.

 

If you own an Apple laptop where the storage is upgradeable (pre 2017 designs) – cherish it – and when it breaks get it repaired at UKMACREPAIR.

There is still lots of life left in older MacBooks.

Of course, not all ‘unauthorised’ service providers will be good. So do your research!

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