They said there’s nothing that they can do except that I pay the $500.Īpparently, the problem occurs due to a failure in the motherboard after the update, which must be replaced to ‘revive’ the device. They say that there’s no way the update caused a hardware issue but I had no problems before I updated. I’ve never had any issues until I updated and they say that I will owe $500 to fix it. I took it to Apple Genius Bar and they state it is due to my logic board. It can get extremely hot and 2 the mousepad clicks. I also updated my MacBook Pro to Monterey and it is just black when trying to boot up. However, something that some users did not expect is that Apple would be charging them a large amount of money for the repair of the device. I am in the middle of my semester and this is really frustrating.Īs expected, users affected by this serious problem tried to claim Apple’s warranty to recover their device. I tried SMC, tried reviving using another mac snd didnt work. One is Pro and one is Air, both 2020 versions. The problem described above would have happened on older models, but not as old, as the 2020 MacBook Pro: The brick can occur in last year’s models However, some users report that they are being charged by Apple for a repair of their bricked Mac ( 1, 2). Therefore, Apple’s warranty would be expected to cover this problem. Taking into account the above, the old Mac models being bricked after the update to macOS 12 Monterrey was not the fault of the users.

Mac owners being charged by Apple for the repair Recently, Mac users have been reporting that, after upgrading to macOS 12 Monterey, their computers bricked. However, the update is not getting along with some older Macs models. MacOS 12 Monterrey has been available since October.

Macbook 12 mainboard