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flyingmanatee

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Jan 7, 2014
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I have a 2015 11.6 Inch Air as a knockaround laptop and by far the weakest link in the display. I've replaced the actual panel years ago in a white Macbook, (they were easier as you didn't have to mess around with heat guns) but it keeps gnawing at me that I could replace the 11 inch Macbook Air with a better display, a 1080p one to be specific. I've read that the 2013-2018s use LVDS as the internal connector and you can find 11.6 inch screens as imports from China.




Most displays are sold as entire assemblies as the entire process looks like a much bigger pain the ass to pop the screen housing. Is this possible?
 
Oh, hi! So, did you replaced one?

BTW, what panel you used to upgrade white MacBook?
 
From experience the MacBooks don't really seem to care what screen is plugged into them, i.e. 2013 display panel in a 2017 MacBook Air so I guess the pinout is pretty generic between Apple displays, but I wouldn't put it past them to of swapped some of the rails around cos Apple...
 
Well, I have a cool white Mid 2010 MacBook and wonder if I can use Late 2012 Air's display panel which is 1440x900. That's will be a valuable upgrade.
 
Any updates with this? Can we upgrade the older MBA screens to 1080P or 1440P even maybe?

Thanks!
 
Count me in as interested. I have a 2015 MBA that's hobbled only by a lousy TFT non-retina display.
 
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