AJMansfield

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There's a little more to this. Parts on products that were released less than a year ago are held for warranty repair (defective part replacement). This is done by not just apple and I see it in pretty much all PC manufacturers too. Usually as soon as that models warranty runs out they will then be happy to fix it due to a lesser need to stockpile parts for warranties.
 
Being a tech that has to deal with these issues in a non apple certified repair business you have some options:
 
Locate the part number on the back of the screen and look on ebay for a replacement (double check the search, eBay loves to sell you similar products) Note: when those screens fall and the lvds cable is connected it can damage the cable ends and/or the port on the logic board. Also check the eBay listing picture for the same issue.
 
Next option is to hook up a second monitor using a thunderbolt to video (vga,dvi,hdmi etc.) to get your projects done. Then keep checking if the part becomes available.
 
Pull hard drive and transfer data/drive to another machine and wait for apple to release the parts.
 
 

Which Apple has not done. 
 
Opening the device is not what voided the warranty, breaking it by trying to tear it down did. 
 
 

According to whom? Is there any precedent?  

Have you considered contacting YouTuber "Strange Parts"? He built an iPhone just from buying the parts and building it himself in Shenzhen.
 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8DQrSp5yEP937qNqTooOw
 
Maybe he can assist in any way.

I feel sure more than a few newspapers would be delighted to know a public service employee is attempting to leverage their position to get some sort of preferential treatment for a Canadian company by leaning on a US company.... are you looking to get fired?

Contact:Strange Parts
His YouTube channel link is given below.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8DQrSp5yEP937qNqTooOw
He's a China based youtuber and can send the parts straight from the facory.
It'll be a good collaboration.

I haven't done it yet, but I have plans to use this card: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XPUHO10/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I1BRFWFKYQ628B&colid=1R2PD9HY1JUJ7
 
With some help/guidance from these pages:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2016-June/msg00103.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2016-July/msg00013.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2016-July/msg00060.html
 
Note that there may be kernel, qemu, etc changes since June/Jluy 2016 that makes these not valid anymore. I did my research into this topic a few months ago, I didn't really find any other cases of people talking about splitting a multi-usb-chip card into multiple VMs. There is some more discussion if you look at the other messages in this same email thread.
 
I'll be looking forward to hearing what you find out and your experiences!

Well, I've purchased the parts, hopefully it works for me.
Especially thanks to the links to those threads; gives me a much better idea how I need to set the system up.