The Cupertino firm surprised us yesterday afternoon with the official launch of the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and Intel 8-core processors. These teams are the first to mount these processors and the news did not come alone, since it also confirmed an improvement in the butterfly keyboards of these MacBook Pro, the extension of repair programs for users who have this problem with keyboards ( some of the keys are stuck) and the Free repairs for users who have the "flexgate" screen problem. All this on Tuesday afternoon and without waiting even for the keynote on June 3 in San Jose, where the WWDC will be held this year.
The "flexgate" is a design issue on the 2016 MacBook Pros
A strange pattern in the lighting of the screens of these teams that make you see a kind of lights similar to those that the stages have on the screen, all because of a too thin cable that causes this problem. This would be more or less the explanation of what this failure means and in the language we all speak it supposes an approximate cost of about 600 euros for the user, what I open is suppressed with the warranty extension for four years implemented on these computers.
By this, what we mean is that Apple has already modified this cable in later versions of this MacBook Pro to avoid the problem, but if you are one of those affected and took your equipment to the official Apple SAT, you can request a refund. of the invoice if you paid and otherwise if you are one of those who did not pay that invoice (since the equipment is from 2016 and may have the warranty terminated) now you can repair it in the Apple store without paying anything. Apple rectifies what it said at the beginning and with the new warranty extension this problem on the screen is covered for all those affected.