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The March 2015 update of Apple's 13" MacBook Pro Retina Display, model A1502, features fifth-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and introduces the Force Touch trackpad.

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Replacing the screen with an unusual/non official screen.

I have recently got a 2015 13" A1502 retina MackBook, the laptop's retina screen is broken. I wish to replace it! But a replacement display assembly is worth more than the computer itself. A display-only replacement is actually not that much cheaper, and the risk involved (at least with my research) is not worth it for my untrained hands. I am experienced in dealing with hardware and am trying to get into lower-level stuff.

Then it came to me: I could try to use another retina screen, from a late 2013 or a 2014 model (both are the same model, A1502). I found out it would be recognized as an external display and take a bit longer to turn on after you turn the laptop on, but that's not an issue. You can likely just replace the board from the 2013-2015 screen with one from a 2015. That should definitely work!

But if I could get away with that, maybe I could use a non-retina screen to replace the one on the laptop. My research has lead me to know it uses a 30-pin connector, and that it likely uses the LVDS system (an iPad 9" retina display uses a EDP interface, and I haven't found much data on it). I might even manage to get a 4k display on it, although I am not entirely sure the 20-pin connector will handle the influx of data.

The idea was to start simple. Maybe just a fullHD; quite sure I can find or adapt an existing laptop screen model to work with the MacBook's hinge slots.

Do any of you have any recommendations? Have you done it yourself, or ever heard about someone doing this? Is there a way to get my hands on the schematics for the screen/motherboard, or access to other information/literature on the subject?

Before you comment saying this is not worth it or I am destroying a perfectly fine (screenless) MacBook, a MacBook with a Dell logo on it would be hilarious and you know that. Even if it's not a perfect fit. As would a retina with a polycarbonate screen attached to it!

Thanks, everyone!

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So a digital TV can tune in a analog TV signal? Nope! Just like an analog TV can’t tune-in a digital TV signal directly (you need a external digital tuner)

Display technology has not stood still either! The older Unibody systems use LVDS signaling, the first generations of retina systems used eDP and the 2015 uses iDP!

All use a similar connector on the logic board so you can’t assume just because they look alike one will work with the other. Just like water pipes gas pipes and even sewer pipes! Are all pipes so you could mix and match them right? I hope you don’t try!

So you are stuck! You need an iDP display the older eDP or even older LVDS displays won’t work.

  • You need this part: 13” MacBook Pro Retina (Early 2015) Display Assembly Apple P/N 661-02360

Sorry, your only other option is too use an external display until you can get your system fixed. As far as the worth of the system, people are still holding onto there older systems tightly! The 2016 and newer MacBook Pro’s dropped interfaces people need (without using a dongle) and the butterfly keyboards where junk! While the new 16” and now the new 13” have gone back to the better scissor keyboard, they still haven’t over come the lack of ports and the newer systems run much hotter!

I have two 2015 15” systems which I will hang onto a few more years. I would recommend you think through the cost factors as well as the fact Apple is about to jump to their own silicon dropping Intel.

I would hold pat until the dust settles at least a few more years.

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Thank you for your answer!

I am less trying to fix it and more trying to toy and learn from it. I could just plug an HDMI to a tv and call it a day. But why do that when I could get a nice monitor, and why do that when I could go for a 4k one, why that... I am interested in understanding display technology enough I can reliably build with it.

Thank you for telling me they use the iDP system. Where did you learn this? Is there a guide or a book or anywhere else I could learn more about this? Neither my university teachers nor libraries have information on it (It's either higher-level stuff as programming or lower level as logic gates). Thank you.

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Googling is a good start ;-}

iDP (Internal DisplayPort) Technology Overview

Signaling is like a language! Its just different! Its not programing per-say and its not logic gates either its a dialog on what the signal is and how its constructed. Ethernet, Bluetooth and WiFi are similar. While there is hardware involved its at a level we really don't get into here.

Look into these other signaling systems before you know it you can see how they all work! Don't forget to score and accept the answer.

Keep exploring!

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Thank you so much.

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