Sunday, July 22, 2018

2018 MacBook Pros Lack Logic Board Failsafe

In the rare event that the logic board fails on a previous MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Apple has a way of recovering the data using an external tool to migrate the data. This is required because the SSD is non-removable. However, the 2018 MacBook Pros appear to not be able to use this recovery method due to the internal port being removed [Source: iFixit]. This is because of the new T2 chip, which acts as hardware encryption for the SSD. Apple is advising technicians to tell customers to frequently backup because of this [Source: MacRumors]. While this may seem dangerous, it is very rare for a logic board to fail under normal use, so this is no cause for alarm.

Apple's Special Data Recovery Tool [Source: MacRumors]

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