Or you can take the laptop to another service provider for a second opinion. The best you can do is to ask the repair shop for more details, perhaps asking to speak with the manager who may be better able to explain things. AFAIK there are no free repair programs to address an SSD or Logic Board failure for the Touchbar laptops.

If you have a Touchbar model laptop, then the SSD is integrated into the Logic Board and is not a separate part. The public article does not mention replacing any parts. Here are the public details on the free Apple SSD repair program:Īnd if you read it carefully Apple explicitly states a special utility will be run to perform a firmware update to the SSD. For Macbook Pro 15' A1286 820-2915-B 820-2915-A 2011 Logic Board i7 2.3 GHz Core i7-2820QM HD 6750M 1GB 661-5853. Not all laptops which 'qualify' for a free repair program are actually affected by the issue described in the public articles. This is a replacement 2.7GHz logic board for the 13' Retina MacBook Pro released in Early 2015 with 8GB of onboard RAM. Plus Apple techs are given very explicit directions on what to do when a laptop qualifies for a special repair program.

If you have the non-Touchbar model with just two USB-C ports, then the details for the free Apple repair program have changed since the original MacRoumor's article was published. This is the 2.8GHz Core i7 Logic Board for the Macbook Pro 13' Late 2011.

Macbook pro 13 logic board