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How cheap is "pretty cheap"? They wanted $300 to replace the trackpad that suddenly stopped working on its own on my 2019 one.

Looking at the price estimator, battery service is like $250. That's not cheap.

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250$ maintenance cost on a 5k$ machine from 2016 is cheap. I work with this thing, and I make a crap ton of money with this thing.

$250 is the same amount of money regardless of what the laptop cost or what you're doing with it.

The vast majority of the time you bring a device into the Apple store they want to sell you a new one and scrap the old one.

They did a full motherboard and keyboard replacement of my 2016 MacBook last year for no cost even though it was wwaaaayyyy out of warranty because the fault was a known issue.

Oh yeah, I remember they did a free out of warranty replacement on one of my MacBooks a bit back, but there was a potential battery explosion issue on that one.

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