A friend just had this happen to their M1 Air under warranty and Apple quoted him $400 for the repair claiming it was "accidental" damage, even though he didn't do anything to it, like the 50 pages of people who replied in the thread.
Wanted to make a quick PSA against purchasing one of these to save a few hundred bucks vs the M2 Air which hopefully won't have this problem, and possibly put some pressure on Apple to take care of their customers for what is clearly a widespread hardware defect.
After the keyboard fiasco I am very nervous about upgrading my 2012 macbook. I tried the last intel model air (same body as the m1) and that computer was an absolute lemming. This 2012 computer sure looks old and ugly, but I can replace all the components myself with a screwdriver, and the body was designed so the cpu could actually work at 100% and not end up thermally throttled. The computer gets hot and the fans get loud for sure, but it doesn't throttle any. Back then the base clocks were probably set to more sane thresholds for heat's sake versus today's turboboosted cpus in thin cases with poor air circulation that inevitably throttle under long term load.
During a recent heatwave, I was working on my back patio, where the temperature peaked at 104F.
My 14” M1 MBP didn’t notice. No fan noise, no performance issues. My windows laptop that I was barely using to test and issue struggled. The CPUs were throttled down and the fan was throttled up. My body found itself wishing that I had an internal fan! :)
Given the number of models with the butterfly keyboards which were somewhat similar (model-wide issues, not acknowledged by Apple, blamed on the user), what makes you think M2 Air is going to fix any potential screen issues?
Wanted to make a quick PSA against purchasing one of these to save a few hundred bucks vs the M2 Air which hopefully won't have this problem, and possibly put some pressure on Apple to take care of their customers for what is clearly a widespread hardware defect.