Was it an Nvidia GPU? I used to work for GeekSquad and we would gladly send the Mac to the Apple store to replace the whole thing with the newer model - always free.
People would come back and thank us for sending them to Apple.
They even honored them out of warranty due to the lawsuit they faced with Nvidia over the solder failures.
It was indeed an nvidia GPU, I desoldered something and got the thing working pretty much 100% on the iGPU of the corei7 in there... For 3 days until some update bricked it once and for good.
I never heard of any actions to take after the second failure, shame. Was that also valid in the EU?
Whole thing did leave me a bit sour about Apple tbh, it was my last macbook.
Yeah we offered resoldering for a while but after Apple started replacing them there was no point.
The settlement was in the US, so that is probably why it didn't apply in the EU. Kind of surprising really.
I don't blame you for being upset, the fact that neither party could come to an agreement and left consumers to pound sand was terrible. Apple should have just replaced them while the lawsuit was pending.
People would come back and thank us for sending them to Apple.
They even honored them out of warranty due to the lawsuit they faced with Nvidia over the solder failures.