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Apple's Do-It-Yourself Repair Store Now Offering Parts for M4 Macs

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Apple this week added parts and tools for all M4 Macs to its self-service repair store in the U.S. and many European countries. This includes parts for MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac mini models with M4, M4 Pro, and/or M4 Max chips.

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Since launching in 2022, Apple's self-service repair program has given customers access to the same genuine Apple parts, tools, and manuals used by the Genius Bar at Apple Stores and at Apple Authorized Service Providers, allowing for do-it-yourself repairs. Repair manuals for M4 Macs are available on Apple's website.

Depending on the model, repair parts that can be ordered for M4 Macs include displays, logic boards, speakers, trackpads, top cases with a keyboard and battery, SSD modules, USB-C ports, fans, Wi-Fi antennas, and more.

The self-service repair store also offers parts for various iPhone models and the Studio Display, as well as replacement batteries for the Beats Pill speaker. Apple says the program is "intended for individuals who are experienced with the complexities of repairing electronic devices," and the repair manuals include important safety information.

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Crack smoking. Logic board is the same price as the SSD.

Edit: equivalent performance NVMe storage in UK is £39 (Crucial P310 500Gb). Also no upgrades or alternative modules are listed so upgrading it via self repair store and official parts is a no.

At very best that M4 SSD module is worth £80 for the additional Apple Tax.
 
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cjsuk said:
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Crack smoking. Logic board is the same price as the SSD.

Edit: equivalent performance NVMe storage in UK is £39 (Crucial P310 500Gb). Also no upgrades or alternative modules are listed so upgrading it via self repair store and official parts is a no.

At very best that M4 SSD module is worth £80 for the additional Apple Tax.
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Ridiculous pricing for the SSD. I sent Tim an example of my company purchasing 2Tb units for the M4 Mac mini at $180 if we order 50. I urged Apple to consider retrospective upgrade service for M4 Mac mini rather than entrusting users who WILL try to upgrade, and quite possibly some ruin their warranties and their machines.

My engineers did a test unit in 15 minutes, the results I reported back to Apple. We have no intention of offering upgrade service as primarily we are a leasing company, and where Apple could really do themselves a favour by offering retrospective upgrades at a reasonable price. The alternative is everyone buys a base 256Gb model, and then. upgrades for a minimal amount, which in the long serves no one.
 
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I’ve done this with a display for my MacBook Pro.. and it was the cheapest route and it’s such an easy fix.
 
cjsuk said:
Crack smoking. Logic board is the same price as the SSD.

Edit: equivalent performance NVMe storage in UK is £39 (Crucial P310 500Gb). Also no upgrades or alternative modules are listed so upgrading it via self repair store and official parts is a no.

At very best that M4 SSD module is worth £80 for the additional Apple Tax.
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Didn’t you know the logic board is free?

$600 (price of base mini)
- $200 (price of 8GB RAM)
- $200 (price of 8GB RAM)
- $200 (price of 256GB SSD)
= $0

Apple is overcharging you on the logic board.
 
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anshuvorty said:
So, is it confirmed that you can buy a 3rd party SSD and use the repair manual to upgrade the storage on the entry model M4 Mac Mini?
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Yeah, but once you see the pricing, you'll quickly be over on AliExpress

Just did that myself for a 2TB internal drive.. working fantastically and only $175 after a coupon .. very fair
 
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well, here's the kicker. you can only repair what you have. so even if the ssd is removable, you can place an order only for the same capacity one. unless you have access to someone else's serial number who happens to have a 2TB mini.
this is truly madness. apple still has its profits through this program, then why the hell they don't allow the poor man to choose from the compatible SSDs?
 
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swm said:
well, here's the kicker. you can only repair what you have. so even if the ssd is removable, you can place an order only for the same capacity one. unless you have access to someone else's serial number who happens to have a 2TB mini.
this is truly madness. apple still has its profits through this program, then why the hell they don't allow the poor man to choose from the compatible SSDs?
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I also noticed that -- totally absurd restriction

Amazing they don't want to take money from someone who wants to give them, I don't know, $1200?, for an Apple sold 2TB SSD?

Anyone know what they are charging for those?
I'm positive the price will make for a massive morning LOL
 
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anshuvorty said:
So, is it confirmed that you can buy a 3rd party SSD and use the repair manual to upgrade the storage on the entry model M4 Mac Mini?
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This guy shows you how

Although, you need another Apple Silicon Mac to perform the DFU restore on the M4 mini in question.

But, even if you have to get an M1 mini on top of the SSD (and the M4 mini), I'm sure the total cost is still a good bit lower than buying a 2TB M4 mini from Apple.

I'd probably also suggest turning off automatic macOS updates as I can't help thinking Apple could "fix" this hole.

Then again, maybe Apple can't both let users DIY with its own, official parts and also block users from swapping in their own, 3rd party parts? That's what it looks like to me.
 
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Plutonius said:
I imagine that if something goes wrong with the self repair that Apple will say that it is the self repair person rather than the part Apple sent :confused:.
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As someone who has been doing a lot of repair work over the last 30 years, on much much more complicated and expensive things, you'd be surprised at how bad people are at repairing things. I was the clean up guy after the first guy had made it worse on numerous occasions. And they had usually been at it with a soldering iron, not just replacing functional units.
 
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I guess you'd also be able to swap the drive for something with even faster r/w speeds than Apple's drives.

So there might be more reasons to do this than simply saving money.
 
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Damn. I'd be a very happy camper if we get to do the same for the upcoming Mac Studios.

I'm definitely be lighting an extra candle at my Tim Apple shrine tonight! 🍏🕯️🙏
 
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As someone who has been doing a lot of repair work over the last 30 years, on much much more complicated and expensive things, you'd be surprised at how bad people are at repairing things. I was the clean up guy after the first guy had made it worse on numerous occasions. And they had usually been at it with a soldering iron, not just replacing functional units.
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I'm guilty of that. Apple refused to change the inoperable battery in my 2017 MacBook Pro and I couldn't find any 3rd party that would do it.

I decided to replace it myself and ended up destroying one of the two speakers (connector) and the replacement battery. I was however able to get the badly swollen battery out of the MacBook Peo and the MacBook Pro will still run off of the adapter.
 
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picpicmac said:
Typical fallacy found online.
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The issue is often that people try to compare parts that are actually different.

As an example, people are always stating the RAM prices are cheap. I also think Apple's RAM upgrade cost is very high but, you can't compare the prices of RAM modules to the unified RAM memory in M chips.
 
swm said:
well, here's the kicker. you can only repair what you have. so even if the ssd is removable, you can place an order only for the same capacity one. unless you have access to someone else's serial number who happens to have a 2TB mini.
this is truly madness. apple still has its profits through this program, then why the hell they don't allow the poor man to choose from the compatible SSDs?
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Right, but isn’t that what “repair” means? “Right to Upgrade” is a completely separate thing.
 
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