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    Difference between Retina Mid-2014 13" and Retina Early 2015 13" Top-Lid

    I found out about six months ago that the top-lid assembly for the 13" Retina Mid-2014 and 13" Retina Early 2015 are not interchangeable even though they look identical. However now I have a stack of these Top-Lids that I need to go through and they look identical. Does anyone have any...
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    Mac Mini 820-3059-A (2011) 3 Beeps

    I have a similar problem with a 2.7Ghz i7 820-3059-A Mac Mini, With no RAM in ether slot the system will do the ram beep, however when I put ram into ether slot the system does not chime, no video, fan spins and that it. Any idea what this might be?
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    Recommendations for seller of original batteries?

    I have access to new oem batteries, let me know if you are still interested and I will look into the price.
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    Macbook logic board repair tools list

    What types of components (resistors capacitors etc) do you stock and what are the most common ones that get replaced?
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    820-3115-B Graphic Distortion when pressure is applied on bottom of board

    Thanks for the tip, Looks as if this was indeed the issue. Now from what I have seen on this forum this issue is not repairable correct?
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    820-3115-B Graphic Distortion when pressure is applied on bottom of board

    In the past few years I have come across a couple different 820-3115-B 13" 2012 Unibody MacBook Pros that have an interesting issue, The system will function just fine and pass all standard Apple Tests however when pressure is applied to the bottom of the logic board right under where the CPU is...
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    2010 MacBook Pro 820-2850-A Apple VST Fail

    I have a pile of 2010 15" Apple MacBook Pro 820-2850-A that all fail Apple VST (Distorted Screen and Random Restarts) and Once again I need to find out if this is primarily due to a faulty GPU chip or some other chip that needs some sort of replacement or rework. Any insight or education on...
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    2011 MacBook Pro with GPU related error in VST

    Now that Apple is no longer replaceing any of the 2011 boards that exhibit GPU problems what is the procedure to repair these? I have heard in the past that the GPU is not nessicarly the underlying factor to the reason these boards fail ( cause the system to crash or not boot) and report bad in...
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    [SOLVED] 2012 Retina 15" 820-3332

    Is the SMC chip U4900?
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