I've had my Macbook Air for about 18 months now. Conveniently as soon as it is out of warranty it decides to no longer work and Apple wants $755.00 to fix it. They told me it is an internal hardware issue but weren't too specific. I suspect it is the motherboard but can't be sure, can anyone confirm or deny that and if so is there a specific one I have to buy to replace it?
Since Apple doesn't sell parts, the only thing you can buy are salvaged parts. You can probably guess how good they are going to be.
I understand that. I was simply asking if this was most likely the problem and if there were different models of the MacBook Air that used different motherboards. And for the ones online costing about 1/5th of what Apple would charge to fix it I think I'll take my chances.
I don't know if your problem is similar to mine. I have a MacBook air that is 5 months old. Today when I went to turn it on all I got was a grey/black screen, the opening sound could be heard and the apple on the outer cover was lit up but nothing on screen. Called tech support and they had me do a few things to it and finally it turned on. I was told it was an issue with "kinks" with the new OS yosemite. Is this what you mean when it won't turn on? And did you download Yosemite? What finally made it turn on was turning on the power and immediately holding down "Option, Command, P and R". It blinked a few times but finally turned on. Since my is still in warranty, I am taking it in to the Genius Bar to have it looked at. Still goes to grey/black screen when it goes to sleep but keys do not wake it, have to close the top and then reopen. They, of course, said that shouldn't be happening and again blamed Yosemite and said they are working on a fix.
No, it doesn't come at on at all. The keyboard doesn't light up, you can't hear the fan running or anything. They said it is some internal hardware component.
You have to be able to troubleshoot the problem and not guess what might be wrong before you are going to be able to fix anything.
To me from the questions you are asking it sounds like it would be cheaper to ask Apple to fix it for you.
Macbook Air won't turn on
