With the advances of AI and Machine learning, I am not even sure why I am posting here. I guess I did not see too much information related the MBP2019 with its broken logic board, so I decided to share my solution here.
I had an MBP2019 16-inch (i9 2.3 GHz 8C, 16GB RAM, AMD Radeon 5500M), which I spent CAD $3500 in Jan 2021 (as the last generation apple intel MBP. Unfortunately, it went down last December. I took it to the Apple store in my city, and they quoted me $1500 + TAX for a logic board replacement in March, which is very insane for the price tag for fixing a not-so-old laptop. A local Apple-certified shop can fix it for me for about $1000, as the logic board costs about $650, which is still too much.
I know my MBP2019 can still boot into safe mode and do some basic work, such as work or Excel, just no YouTube, as the same mode drops the system to basic graphic mode. I also have a 2011 MBP that is notorious for its broken AMD GPU that I fixed by modifying the NVRAM by permanently shutting off the discrete GPU and forcing the iGPU. Since the post mentioned Arch Linux, I know perhaps I can try with Linux.
Very luckily, there is a whole GitHub page and wiki talk about the Linux-T2 webpage, so all you have to do is just follow it, and then you can turn it into a Linux learning machine, even with some steam gaming. The i9 CPU is still very powerful, considering Linux is a much lighter-weight system.
1. t2linux wik
2. GitHub: Linux for T2
If you have a similar issue with your 2019 MBP (it is about 5-6 years now). Give it a try by running Linux. I don't think NVRAM fix is a viable solution due ot the T2 chip that takes out all the fun. But hey, if you know how to hack into T2, feel free to share it.
For those who are not familiar with Linux, I highly recommend setting up the system with two separate partitions: one for root (/) and the other for Home (/home), and installing TimeShift for system restore. Linux is a bit funky for the update, the patch that silently broke the old dependency. Better solution: just don't run the update if your system is stable.
I had an MBP2019 16-inch (i9 2.3 GHz 8C, 16GB RAM, AMD Radeon 5500M), which I spent CAD $3500 in Jan 2021 (as the last generation apple intel MBP. Unfortunately, it went down last December. I took it to the Apple store in my city, and they quoted me $1500 + TAX for a logic board replacement in March, which is very insane for the price tag for fixing a not-so-old laptop. A local Apple-certified shop can fix it for me for about $1000, as the logic board costs about $650, which is still too much.
I know my MBP2019 can still boot into safe mode and do some basic work, such as work or Excel, just no YouTube, as the same mode drops the system to basic graphic mode. I also have a 2011 MBP that is notorious for its broken AMD GPU that I fixed by modifying the NVRAM by permanently shutting off the discrete GPU and forcing the iGPU. Since the post mentioned Arch Linux, I know perhaps I can try with Linux.
Very luckily, there is a whole GitHub page and wiki talk about the Linux-T2 webpage, so all you have to do is just follow it, and then you can turn it into a Linux learning machine, even with some steam gaming. The i9 CPU is still very powerful, considering Linux is a much lighter-weight system.
1. t2linux wik
2. GitHub: Linux for T2
If you have a similar issue with your 2019 MBP (it is about 5-6 years now). Give it a try by running Linux. I don't think NVRAM fix is a viable solution due ot the T2 chip that takes out all the fun. But hey, if you know how to hack into T2, feel free to share it.
For those who are not familiar with Linux, I highly recommend setting up the system with two separate partitions: one for root (/) and the other for Home (/home), and installing TimeShift for system restore. Linux is a bit funky for the update, the patch that silently broke the old dependency. Better solution: just don't run the update if your system is stable.