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Stephan Steins of NotebookNerds told Forbes: Its a common problem, we get several of them a week.
Ricky Panesar, founder of repair outfit iCorrect, observes hes repairing about four of these faults per week.
Note that more recent MacBook Pros, from 2021 onwards, are not susceptible to the purple screen blues.
ApparentlyAppleintroduced a way to better protect the flex cable with these laterMacBooks.
Panesar explained: The difficulty is that the damaged cables connect on the back of the screen itself.
Theres a high risk of breakage.
Given that, you could be looking at a replacement screen, not just a cable.
A new display is, of course, one of the pricier repairs on a MacBook.
If youre hit by the problem yourself, you could try contacting Apple and complaining.
Apple has acknowledged the latter issue, but not the former (yet).
Hopefully some investigation will be underway into these dustgate reports…
