!: Who cares how much the computer cost? A repair is whatever fixed the issue. Or would you rather just pay more because your laptop costs more?
It matters because it’s just going to break again
2: I’ll have to take your word for it but in this video, nothing needed to be replaced.
Bending and then rebending copper pins weakens them tremendously and is not a repair and that cable being unseated implies someone, who is not a skilled technician, was inside that computer and likely damaged more components
3: Humidity also.
Normal atmospheric humdity does not trigger all the sensors in a computer, perhaps one overly sensitive LCI would trigger, but not all of them. I take my phone into the bathroom while i shower, every day, and have never had an LCI trigger on any phone I’ve ever owned. If you have LCI’s triggered from non-submersion, it was probably stored/used in an area outside of operating requirements which is still liquid damage and likely caused/will cause corrosion. Also; if you look closely when the the youtube guy pans across the innards, there appear to be more signs of liquid then just the LCI’s (may just be dust, it was a quick pan)
4: See #3 and no, replacement is neither the right way nor the smart way. I fear our throw-away culture is getting out of hand if we think whole expensive systems need to be replaced because dots - instead of some evidence based repair decisions like: is it still working even though the dots are red? Then we’ll just leave the wet “damaged” stuff in there, until it’s not working.
Metal corrodes and sometimes that corrosion takes time. Wherever liquid may have touched is probable and likely to fail in the future.
5: Yeah, this guy’s not doing his job well, from the perspective of the customer. He’s doing it exactly right from the perspective of Apple though.
He is absolutely NOT doing his job as he was trained by apple.
I know these repair strategies seem over the top, but they are what is required when repairs are being done on the scale apple performs them. Yes, if you go to a small local shop for your repair, they may just find a bent pin that they can bend back and you get away with a $50 charge. This shop may also be unskilled and inexperienced and cause damage while in or opening your computer and have no access to certified/reliable parts and undo any damage they’ve done.
Large companies like Apple or Dell or HP or Lenovo… tend to be pessimistic in there repair strategy because, what’s more expensive than replacing large components when it may be a cable or connector are Repeat repairs.
