<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Since the reporters couldn’t verify the bricking when they tried a hardware component swap, and said the machines ran perfectly, this would seem to be what’s now called #fakenews. <div><br></div><div>Either that or I’m completely misunderstanding the original story. -A<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Tenderly tapped on a tiny tablet</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Oct 6, 2018, at 9:54 AM, "<a href="mailto:arnieswap@gmail.com">arnieswap@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:arnieswap@gmail.com">arnieswap@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">So even I can't repair my mac myself? I wish Adobe Premiere was even a quarter as good as FCPX, I would have switched to Windows. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 12:31 PM Christine Hall <<a href="mailto:christine@fossforce.com">christine@fossforce.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Personally, I think this should be entirely illegal. Void warranty would <br>
be appropriate, but bricking machine?<br>
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New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they're being <br>
repaired by an independent technician<br>
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