Help! 5 Month Old Macbook Pro 16" M1 Max Not Charging or Turning On!

[msadek_97]

Hi everyone, I hadn't used my Macbook Pro in a few weeks. When I went to turn it on nothing happened. I thought it may be dead so I plugged in the magsafe charger and there was no light showing.

I've left it plugged in for over an hour and still cannot power it on. I tried pressing and holding the power button down for 20 seconds, still nothing.

I also tried using a USB-C cable to see if it'd turn it on but again nothing happened.

I called Apple and have arranged an appointment next Tuesday. I do local backups to my external SSD, but didn't do one recently and I have three albums of photos that I took which are important. But thats a road I'll cross once I can figure out what's going on with the Macbook.

I'm so shocked that this could happen to such a premium machine, and one that is still 'new'.

Has this happened to anyone else? I've got Applecare and I'm still in the standard warranty period. Such a bummer as I also need to use the laptop to do some photo-editing for some shots I took over the past few days.

Thanks guys !

 

[Toutou]

I'm so shocked that this could happen to such a premium machine, and one that is still 'new'.

Electronics fail, more likely when the device is new, less likely when it’s older and more likely when it’s really old, it’s called a bathtub curve. All computers are subject to it, premium or not. They’re rocks that we’ve tricked into thinking.

 

[okkibs]

I too expect this to be a manufacturing defect. If you are lucky it is just the battery and your data will likely be kept. If it is the logic board that data is already gone.