A Eulogy to my beloved 16” MacBook Pro
A few days ago, my time with my 2019 16” MacBook Pro came to an end. It was the first machine I used with serious performance. It was the device I used to start writing Medium Texts. It was the device which enabled me to start editing videos, a skill which soon later got me two jobs at my university. It was the device which accompanied over the first two and a half years of my studies.
However over the last half a year, my 16” MacBookPro developed several problems. In the summer it started restarting because of a kernel panic, which led to my local Apple Store replacing the logic board. Four months later the replaced motherboard developed a volume hash mismatch due to a defect RAM unit. Then after picking up the laptop again, it again developed the kernel panic error after just one day. In short, the MacBook Pro I used on a daily basis for three years became unreliable, which is extremely problematic if you rely on that device for your studies and work.
So I went back to the Apple Store to check what options they had, as I needed to get back to a reliable state. However, there was little the friendly employees could offer me, another logic board exchange and then see what would happen. A solution that had did not seem very promising, as the MacBook had already gone through three logic boards, so why should the forth one be the chosen one? So they…
