It's frustrating, and I've generally had a solid experience with Apple products, but I guess this particular model had its issues. I too think this is my best option, and perhaps try to sell the Macbook Air without the SSD for parts (screen and everything else was fine). Apparently the SSD's are proprietary pin configurations, not standard M.2 SSD's, so a normal, cheaper enclosure won't work. Gesture, this is the OWC Envoy Pro enclosure for 2013+ models. Interested in something like that myself. If you decide on it, can you post the link. Did Macs once have more longevity? Although I have experienced LCD display connection issues with an older MacBook.

Sounds like too expensive and questionable a repair.

If the drive is good, you can use it as an external USB or Thunderbolt drive on your new computer or other Macs, whatever transfer modes that OWC product supports.īummer about the Macbook Air. I think the $100 is worth it to get your data back and that enclosure is worth having. I thought this was one of the better articles on Target Disk Mode: Probably too late for that if there is logic board failure. So I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this and has some insight. The only way I can think of to do this is to get an enclosure, and according to some posts on the Apple forums, the only enclosure that will work well with this SSD is the $100 model from OWC. We have a 2012 Macbook that we could connect it to. The other conundrum is that we didn't back-up this computer very often, so the PCIe M.2 SSD (128gb) has some information on it that we'd like to retrieve if possible. If there's a history of logic board failure, why would I want to pay $700 to replace it, if it could fail in another 1-2 years? Has anyone else here experienced this? In your opinion, is it worth repairing? The new board only has a 90-day warranty. The replacement of the board will cost around $700 CDN (no warranty on this Macbook we bought it used). I've read some forums and it seems this generation of Air has a history of premature logic board failures. Hello all, I have a 2016 Macbook Air 13' 2.2ghz i7 8gb, and Apple recently diagnosed it with a logic board failure.

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