Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros Attempt to Solve Flexgate, Without Admitting It Exists

Despite Apple’s refusal to acknowledge the issue, though, their latest MacBook Pros have a longer cable that may be attempting to make up for previous shortcomings. You can read more about flexgate in our rundown here, but in short: Apple, in an effort to make their laptops even thinner and sleeker, is using thin, fragile flex cables to connect the display to the display controller board beneath the touch bar. However, when MacRumors user Olivia88 noticed his 2018 13” MacBook Pro seemed to have a longer cable than previous models, we were intrigued.

Source: ifixit.org