MacBook repair outside warranty?
I bought an upgraded MacBook Pro for $4,500 in 2019. I purchased AppleCare for 3 years on it for an additional $600. That AppleCare expired on December 15th 2023 and one week ago my MacBook went to sleep and never woke up again. Took it to an authorized repair centre and they said the logic board is fried and will cost $1000ish to fix.
I am devastated. 2 months after my 3 year AppleCare expires and the laptop silently died. I don’t have the money to fix it, my family is not well off. I was only able to afford it in the first place because my mom sold her house and helped out with it. I am a small music producer and book writer and I lost over 100gb worth of music I had written, recorded for other people and the novel I had been writing for 14 years. (Worldbuilt for 12 of those years and only began writing it in 2019 on this Mac.)
Does Apple do good faith repairs if they die so close to the warranty expiration? Or am I able to procure the right tools to unsolder the SSD myself and retrieve my priceless data off of it?
I have learned my backup lesson already moving forward, but this is devastating to both my wallet and career.
Thank you.
MacBook Pro 16″