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Logic Board replacement question

Newtons Apple said:
Not a lot of working logic boards floating around.
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Nope, that's why people that were still partaking the repair program near the end of that program had more frequent failures. The pool of functioning logic board shrank so much that Apple was virtually recycling those failed logic boards into the repair program
 
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maflynn said:
Nope, that's why people that were still partaking the repair program near the end of that program had more frequent failures. The pool of functioning logic board shrank so much that Apple was virtually recycling those failed logic boards into the repair program
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- Yeah, it's really quite the situation.

I had my board replaced twice under the programme. Both lasted about 1 year. When the last one failed, the programme had ended and the machines had been declared vintage/obsolete, so it couldn't be replaced again. But it was still under consumer warranty, so I got Apple to pay me ~$490 instead (the estimated value of the logic board). I then went to a third-party to have the failed board reflowed for $125 of those $490 and pocketed the rest. That lasted 3 months, and I was refunded under warranty by the repair shop.

I am now running with a defective dGPU and have forced the machine to use only the iGPU, so it's still functioning and has been since March - though of course with the compromises that not having a dGPU brings with it, such as not being able to use an external display.

I will be getting a 13" 2018 later in the year.
 
JTToft said:
I will be getting a 13" 2018 later in the year.
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Well, the laptop is 7 years old at this point, so while your road was not easy with GPU failures, it is time to put the old girl out to pasture ;)
 
maflynn said:
Well, the laptop is 7 years old at this point, so while your road was not easy with GPU failures, it is time to put the old girl out to pasture ;)
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- Yeah. Though I probably would have kept it a few years longer if not for this. In all other areas, it still keeps up well for my relatively modest needs, and it's in great physical condition.
 
Do you need the dgpu? There's an efi "fix" which will allow you to just use the gpu on the intel chip
 
MrGimper said:
I don't know, I'll bow to other more knowledgable people. My point is that you seem to think that posts on this thread are confirming your listed points about other mother/logic boards working in your machine, when the posts I've read on here are saying there are likely enough subtle differences for that not to be the case. Therefore no-one is confirming what you listed
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According to this page the two machines seem to use identical configuration...

https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=MacBookPro8,2
 
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