Macbook Pro M1 2021 Logic board replacement [common issue]

My Macbook Pro M1 2021 stopped working - I took it to an official Apple support service and was told the logic board needs to be replaced.

I was informed this is a very common issue with this model. Indeed upon checking I found hundreds of similar issues all across the world. Next are the links to just some cases:

M1 MacBook Pro logic board failure - Apple Community

Macbook M1 pro 2021 logic board dead comp… - Apple Community

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/comments/183pfh4/is_m1_macbook_pro_logic_board_failure_common/


There are many more but I'm limited on how much I can write here. After contacting support I was told this issue even though common is not covered under the service program thus I request you to please consider it.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.2

Posted on Jan 29, 2025 4:16 AM

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Posted on Jan 29, 2025 5:09 AM

FWIW, these Apple Community forums are peer-to-peer support forums. You are not speaking to Apple here, only other users, and we understand Apple don’t actively participate here.


You can leave product feedback or submit a request for features consideration in macOS or iOS or if you have other concerns using this link: Feedback - Apple


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Jan 29, 2025 5:09 AM in response to Gabriel_Mota

FWIW, these Apple Community forums are peer-to-peer support forums. You are not speaking to Apple here, only other users, and we understand Apple don’t actively participate here.


You can leave product feedback or submit a request for features consideration in macOS or iOS or if you have other concerns using this link: Feedback - Apple


Jan 29, 2025 6:51 AM in response to Gabriel_Mota

Almost any one of thousands of hardware issues with a MacBook Pro requires replacing the mainboard, which contains the processor, RAM memory, boot drive, along with most drivers for I/O and typically Wi-Fi interfaces as well. That means yours is not necessarily the SAME failure as the others you found.


Even if you were able to find Hundreds with a similar symptom, that does NOT demonstrate a broad-based defect. To use Apple's words, that's "a small number of systems".


Apple ships around 20 million new Macs a year. That's about 57,000 a DAY.


I recommend you spend you time and energy getting a working system to do your important work, and not put a lot of energy into trying to get Apple to pay this particular failure.

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