Macbook Pro late 2011 13" Display/screen issues

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Macbook Pro late 2011 13" Display/screen issues

I have had this laptop for three years and take good care of it and suddenly I have a black spot on the top left corner of the screen and it is out of apple care and before this I did notice some flickering of the screen in the same area but it was happening randomly to where I could not duplicate the issue and now I got a black bar half covering the finder bar at the top till where if safari is open where history starts i tried to get a screen shot but the black did not show up at all on the screen shot. All I want to know is is this fixable and if it is how much could it run me or if it is not worth fixing and just get a new laptop.

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jul 28, 2015 8:12 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 28, 2015 8:18 AM in response to Brassangel07

The only people who can tell you exactly whether or not it can be fixed and the cost would be the technicians at an Apple store genius bar.

Certain models of 2011 MacBook Pros have a repair order out due to problems with the graphics module, be sure and ask if your MacBook Pro is covered by that order.

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Jul 28, 2015 8:19 AM in response to Brassangel07

Repair order just says 15" and 17" models, but ask anyway: http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

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Jul 28, 2015 9:10 AM in response to Ralph Landry1

I have no apple care so contacting Apple equals taking it to the Apple Store in person.

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Jul 28, 2015 9:22 AM in response to Brassangel07

The Apple store has the advantage that the techs can run their diagnostics and that part is free. It is not until they do repair work that the charge.

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Jul 28, 2015 12:00 PM in response to Ralph Landry1

I tried rebooting the computer and the issue is gone the black bar thing I was seeing has disappeared.

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Brassangel07 Author

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Jun 6, 2016 5:21 AM in response to Ralph Landry1

Not too long ago I took it to apple and they had discovered that this issue only occurs when my computer is put into sleep mode and there is nothing that their tests showed were wrong with it but the tests could not go far seeing as the hard drive is dying and the battery is not far behind it. Now I need an external hard drive to back up everything and then send it off to where apple sends it off to have all the problems worked on at one time.

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