Owners of the latest MacBook Pro with Touch Bar are in for a rude surprise if the logic board inside their laptop
gives up the ghost. Apparently, Apple tweaked the design of the 2018 models in such a way that makes data reco-
very practically impossible when the system is no longer able to boot. Even Apple Store employees are not able
to help. The issue relates to the soldering of the solid-state drive (SSD) to the motherboard inside the MacBook Pro.

Apple has been doing this for at least the past couple of years, though it also built a special tool to allow
Genius Bars and Apple Authorized Service Providers to extract data from the SSD when the logic board is
toast (assuming the SSD didn’t go bad as well). Apple’s tool is a little black box with a flex cable that connects
to the data recovery port on the faulty logic board. The box also connects to a working MacBook Pro
through a USB-C connection and is able to pluck a user’s data off the faulty system. It works with 2016 and 2017
models of the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Unfortunately, it seems the tool is not compatible with the 2018 model.

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