09-29-2023, 04:15 AM
Gareth wrote:
If it was me, I'd do a display swap instead. Keep him on the i5 and his SSD. Maybe figure out which battery is better and swap that too if needed (batteries are easy on those Airs, just screws, no adhesive). If he doesn't have any software issues to think about and is ok with the i7, then just clone it (or do the display swap and clone and swap the 1TB to the i5).
I agree, everything is fairly easy to repair on that generation MB Air, I recently did a screen swap on one and got a pretty good condition screen assembly on ebay for under $45.
In my case there was really nothing wrong with the the old screen, it was the the antenna connectors that attach to the WiFi/Bluetooth card that were bad, and there's really no easy way to replace just the antenna, it's inside the screen assembly.