Dude, if you had your way, we'd be paying $10,000 per laptop, not $2,000. Perfection costs money. Great plan fan boy. You want to change things? Don't buy from companies that mass produce goods, that should be interesting for you.
WTF???
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MBP Return or not return(pic included)
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Dude, if you had your way, we'd be paying $10,000 per laptop, not $2,000. Perfection costs money. Great plan fan boy. You want to change things? Don't buy from companies that mass produce goods, that should be interesting for you.
WTF???
There just happens to be two high end Dells in my work area this morning...and they both have gaps of some sort. My VAIO at home has...gasp...a gap. They are not as visable, because the base color of the computer is black (or grey in the VAIO case), but they both surely have gaps. The one is nearly 2mm and it's never been off its dock.
Why do we care about this stuff. Because whiners, who don't actually have defective products drive the prices up for all of us. If you want a perfect computer, go pony up $12,000 and have one custom built. Have to give it up to Apple, they've got people convinced putting in a 160gb hard drive is 'customization'.
Yeah so? All that means is you now have two computers with misaligned cases rather than just the one.
No if I had it my way things would be produced properly and companies would take a slight hit in profits, which they ultimately do when making things badly anyway.
You said a lot of people agree with you, I was illustrating that people agreeing with you doesn't make you right. Hell, there are people out there that think Oasis have talent, ANY number of them doesn't make it true.
Wow! Now a 1mm gap is exploitation? Why not include the term slaves while we're perfecting the drama queen routine?
metal case+large surface area+very thin+100 degree C point source heat source+ dimwits who open or close case lid by grasping corners = warped MBP
It's not a defect, it should be obvious to anyone.
P.S. I've seen some that were defective on here, defects do happen and I'd get them replaced as well. The OPs pictures are not of a defective laptop. I'm ignoring his pixel issue.
A lot of MBPs come with warped cases, guess what? According to the support-guy I spoke to it IS a defect. No the OPs pictures didnt look that bad...but then again thats not what hes returning it for.
Just send it back, if your that worried about a gap or some dead pixels then send it back and let someone else buy the refurb, I'm sure they'll be perfectly happy with it. I could personally care less about a gap, my PB has it, so what, does it effect the computers performance? No. Dead pixels suck, but for the most part you'll never notice them, if you have around 7, then get the screen replaced.
Exactly, my Macbook's screen doesn't fit by about 1mm and the case on the side goes in when you press it, who cares? It's still a well designed laptop, better than the Dell Latitude X300 I used over the summer.
Three issues, the idiot who designed it put the fan output right by one side where you have the mouse, two of the three USB ports were so close it was impossible to use both at the same time, and (even though an X300 is a 12" laptop) the screen rubbed the keyboard because it was too close and had marks on it from carrying it, compared to these defects your Macbook Pro is perfect, and these issues are pretty minor too.
Sometimes you have to worry about whether stuff is worth fighting for. I assume along with fighting Apple for a perfect laptop you are fighting hard for real problems like poverty, climate change, world peace and freedom of speech? (Apologies to Mod's if too political.)
I didn't get specific on gap sizes, why are you talking about a 1mm gap? Who do you think made your apple stuff? Santa's elves? More like people who do it because they will starve if they don't. This problem isn't exclusive to Apple by any means but thats not really the point is it.
To put it from another perspective, maybe your standards are too high?
Even if Apple comes out with a MBP with no gaps, so what? We'd see the same old brikeh complaining how the screws are not orientated perfectly to the same degree. It never ends man.
If macs suck so much, why do you think people who are in fields like media production use them? I am pretty damned sure those people don't take out their MBP/MPs and inspect them over with a 50x loupe out of the box.
Here's a new one for you, even MBPs that seemingly come with no gaps will develop gaps if manhandled wrongly! By the same token, it can also be warped back into shape at a service centre! So what?!
There is a 1mm gap, omg, it calculates my excel spreadsheets wrongly. It made my tax returns evaluate to 1 million dollars! zomg!!!
Let me first say that I am picky just like most of us. I would hate to spend the kind of money that a MBP brings in to find that the build quality is sub par. But I don't think that a small gap in btwn the screen and base is worth the time that it would take to get a replacement, and time without the computer.
Just my .02
Just my .02
Yeah I dont play that nerd **** whats zomg? I was talking about computers that come bent out of the box. Your looking for reassurance right now cause I saw you in the grainy display thread and the uneven lighting thread. Figured you´d try to live with it did ya? Thats fine.
Yeah youre real happy with your MBP arent you?
Ah WTH Im in a generous mood...Here are some of my favorites:
Wow man. Why the sudden change of heart on your beautiful MBP? Did they give you a new one or did you just figure that...meh it wont get any better?
What's the maximum score? 5?
The crap GPU took one for the team
Meh... the way you describe it, I guess yours is no better than mine
Wow man. Why the sudden change of heart on your beautiful MBP? Did they give you a new one or did you just figure that...meh it wont get any better?
I did not read all the posts on this thread, but I did notice on mine that there was no gap when I received it, but there is one now? Is it possible that it is the latching system? The screen has what seems like a strong spring toward the outside of the laptop, and the way it locks onto the keyboard section, in the center, could cause it to warp???
I don't have a problem with it, but if it gets worst???
I don't have a problem with it, but if it gets worst???
If the gap really bothers you then try to take it back and see what they say...it's worth a try.
Get out much??? Man, there HAS to be something better you could have done with your time...
I'm too lazy to read through this entire thread, but I will say I agree with MovieCutter, every mac laptop I've seen has this "problem", my powerbook has it, my Macbook Pro has it. Every Powerbook/MBP I've seen at the office has it.
Really, get over it, this doesn't effect performance one bit, I understand people's needs for "perfection" on a $2/k machine, but really, nothing is perfect in this world. Some of you need to read the beach scene in fight club (from the book, not in the movie) to fully understand perfection.
Really, get over it, this doesn't effect performance one bit, I understand people's needs for "perfection" on a $2/k machine, but really, nothing is perfect in this world. Some of you need to read the beach scene in fight club (from the book, not in the movie) to fully understand perfection.
And 'close to perfection' costs one hell of a lot of money.
A perfect bottle of wine costs...$700
http://www.winebid.com/buy_wine/item_details.aspx?ItemId=1707064-H9067
A perfect turntable costs...$19,000
http://www.uncrate.com/men/gear/home-audio-speakers/clearaudio-master-reference-turntable-002972.php
A perfect stereo set of Krell Master Reference amplifiers costs $120,000
http://www.stereodesign.com/ces2001/krell.htm
A perfect car costs $1,440,000
http://www.bugatti-cars.de/bugatti/index.html
Still want a perfect computer???
Hey,
Sadly i think i i might have some bad news for you.
The following are pictures of my mbp:
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I posted a topic basically like this a little while back and even though the members of this forum thought that the gap was too big the Apple authorized seller/fixer-upper thought otherwise.
Sorry about the bad pics but to give you a sense of it's size...it's approx. as big as one cd and one peice of paper.
Mines just like that...
I fully agree with everyone saying that a slight gap isnt reason enough to return a computer, I wouldnt have returned a computer just because of that. BUT....Its the attitude towards people that are not satisfied with their computers. Is it really neccesary? Calling people dimwits and idiots and questioning their motives for posting. Its SO uncalled for. If you dont like whats in the thread then yeah...by all means say something but it doesnt have to be an insult.
Price isn't everything. My turntable cost less than that, so did my amps, so did my car, none of them had an defects when I got them, none of them do now.
Why? Why fight for something that doesn't really matter, like whether your laptop screen doesn't fit perfectly, rather than something important, maybe I didn't express it very well
. To me it seems just weird if you think that it's important that your Laptop has a one 1mm gap at the edge.