Yesterday, Apple revealed it would grow its Self Service Repair program to fto you hole your ain MacBooks, and contiguous the programme is here. You tin present download afloat repair manuals for your 2021 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros and the 2020 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro and M1 MacBook Air — and store for parts you mightiness need.

But what volition Apple really fto you buy, and however overmuch volition you really person to pay? That’s not evident until you participate your serial numbers and basal astir the company’s full store — truthful we did it for you.

Many prices look (relatively) generous! Others, not truthful much. You can’t conscionable regenerate your ain artillery oregon keyboard connected a MacBook Pro, for example! You person to bargain the full apical lid that comes with that and different parts preattached, and it’ll outgo you more than twice the $199 that Apple charges for a artillery replacement. Apple didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The battery, speakers, microphone, and keyboard are fixed to the apical lawsuit of 2021 MacBook Pros. Image: Apple

And portion you can regenerate conscionable the artillery connected your 2020 M1 MacBook Air, you’ll person to walk $39 — the aforesaid terms arsenic a afloat acceptable of keycaps — to regenerate breached keys connected your relation row. That mightiness beryllium due to the fact that Apple ships seven sets of Fn keycaps astatine a time:

That’s a batch of relation enactment keycaps. Image: Apple

The motherboard prices are peculiarly interesting. Not lone volition Apple not fto you upgrade to a higher-end board but besides the institution is dramatically incentivizing you to instrumentality the archetypal part. It expects you to laic retired arsenic overmuch arsenic $4,222 for a caller logic committee — ouch astatine having that connected my recognition paper — but you’ll get the immense bulk of it backmost upon return. You should upwind up paying $588 for a 16-inch MacBook Pro board, $500 for a 14-inch oregon 13-inch MBP board, oregon $368 for an M1 Air board, nary substance however loaded it is.

Lastly, here’s a database of the optional tools and immoderate secondary parts you mightiness need:

You tin besides opt for Apple’s $49 instrumentality rental — if you’re consenting to motion distant its full acquisition terms successful the lawsuit you don’t instrumentality it wrong 7 days. (This astir got maine successful occupation when I utilized 1 to repair my iPhone, arsenic my parts arrived days aft the kit, and adjacent though I sent it backmost successful time, Apple initially reported it missing.)

You tin find a database of everything that comes with the MacBook instrumentality rental astatine the bottommost of this webpage. Interestingly, lone the 2020 MacBook kits travel with big, dense peculiar tools similar show and artillery presses.