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My M1 Macbook Air is DEAD

Don’t make the same mistake as I did.

Tan Han Wei
CodeX
6 min readMar 31, 2021

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Okay, I may have exaggerated a little. The GIF that I have created doesn’t depict what happened. In reality, it was even scarier because there weren’t any early signs of failure.

Back in November 2020, I got a new M1 Macbook Air through Apple’s online store. I must say that this machine is a beast (in a very good way) because it handles everything very well. Battery life? Fantastic! I could sit down and do my video editing for about 3 to 4 hours on-battery!

However, on 29 March 2021, this laptop suddenly died when I was using Adobe Photoshop for a project. Yes, dead. It wasn’t taking its time to “shut down”. It just blacked out and showed no signs of life at all. The battery was about 50% charged, and it wasn’t plugged into the power outlet. Initially, I thought it was a power failure. So I plugged it into the power outlet, but I couldn’t get it to boot up at all. I tried resetting its NVRAM, and it just wouldn’t turn on.

I got worried because I had around 800GB of data on the laptop. Immediately, I used my phone and contacted Apple Support for help. After few minutes of online chat, I was told that I need to send it to the nearest Apple Store for inspection.

Apple Store at Marina Bay Sands. It’s a beautiful Apple Store. I photographed using Ricoh GR III.

Two hours later, I was at the Apple Store at Marina Bay Sands (it’s a lovely place, by the way). An Apple Genius…

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