I’m a fan of repair so I didn’t mind paying almost as much as a new laptop to replace the display and battery of the old one. However, I balked at Apple telling me that they’ll have to wipe my drive to install the latest macOS even after I told them I have the latest.
“What if a new one comes out during the repair today?”
Seriously?! Why is this necessary?
Ridiculous. Even if they need to somehow match old hardware identifiers to identifiers of new parts, Apple's repair service should then also include copying the content of your drive to an up-and-running state.
Logic board replacements used to require new serial-number input for certain Apple apps. Because that's how their pro-Apps' licensing worked: the software license was linked to the hardware identifier.
Maybe, by now, even display and battery replacement require new cross-referencing of hard- and software identifiers. Dunno.
David Ho
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