Here’s how a lot Apple expenses for each half to repair your individual MacBook

Yesterday, Apple revealed it will develop its Self Service Repair program to allow you to repair your individual MacBooks, and at present this system is right here. You can now download full repair manuals on your 2021 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros and the 2020 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro and M1 MacBook Air — and store for elements you may want.

But what is going to Apple truly allow you to purchase, and the way a lot will you actually must pay? That’s not apparent till you enter your serial numbers and root round the company’s entire store — so we did it for you.

Many costs appear (comparatively) beneficiant! Others, not a lot. You can’t simply exchange your individual battery or keyboard on a MacBook Pro, for instance! You have to purchase your complete high lid that comes with that and different elements preattached, and it’ll value you greater than twice the $199 that Apple expenses for a battery alternative.

And when you can exchange simply the battery in your 2020 M1 MacBook Air, you’ll must spend $39 — the identical value as a full set of keycaps — to switch damaged keys in your operate row. That could be as a result of Apple ships seven units of Fn keycaps at a time.

The motherboard costs are significantly fascinating. Not solely will Apple not let you upgrade to a higher-end board but additionally the corporate is dramatically incentivizing you to return the unique half. It expects you to put out as a lot as $4,222 for a brand new logic board — ouch at having that on my bank card — however you’ll get the overwhelming majority of it again upon return. You ought to wind up paying $588 for a 16-inch MacBook Pro board, $500 for a 14-inch or 13-inch MBP board, or $368 for an M1 Air board, irrespective of how loaded it’s.

Lastly, right here’s a listing of the non-obligatory instruments and a few secondary elements you may want:

You may go for Apple’s $49 software rental — if you happen to’re prepared to signal away its complete buy value within the occasion you don’t return it inside seven days. (This almost acquired me in hassle after I used one to restore my iPhone, as my elements arrived days after the package, and although I despatched it again in time, Apple initially reported it lacking.)

You can discover a checklist of every little thing that comes with the MacBook software rental on the backside of this webpage. Interestingly, solely the 2020 MacBook kits include massive, heavy particular instruments like show and battery presses.