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James Godfrey

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Oct 13, 2011
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I noticed today on the left hand side (when the iPad is in portrait orientation) if you run your finger down the edge of where the aluminium meets the display, there is a slight bump about an inch or so from the top and an inch or so from the bottom, it feels like as if there are scratches or nicks in the aluminium chassis (which I thought there was at first) but looking under good lighting there is no nicks or scratches and it is more like a bumps in the aluminium.

Is this normal, I am presuming it’s where the screen is pressed into the chassis during manufacturing not sure if it’s only present on the miniLED 5th generation or all generations from 2018 onwards.

See pic for rough locations of where I have noticed them. It’s nothing major enough to set up a return or anything for, but just worried that something could be swelling internally.
 

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