Hopefully you can see my MBP in the picture (click on the photo). The lid is even on both sides as well as in the middle. Yes they do exist.
that's great, I wish I'll get the same
Hopefully you can see my MBP in the picture (click on the photo). The lid is even on both sides as well as in the middle. Yes they do exist.
Apple has problems with their QC but few people will admit it.
It's quite all right. Macbook Pros are not Gods and it doesn't really make a difference to me if you're unsatisfied and refuse to buy them. I'm just curious why you want one so bad if you're so upset at the perceived build quality?
I would love to see in the flesh the MacBook Pros which don't have the warping problem because every single one I've ever seen has suffered from it.
went to the apple sote today, and out of 6 15" mbp's all are really hot! doing nothing.. now i dont know if its the nvidia issue or not but the 2 17" mbp's are really cool, as in cold
now im thinging of getting a 17" just because its screen is so much better then all the 15"![]()
My mouth dropped open when I was scrolling through recent posts and saw this, as it's the exact thing I was just coming to post about!!! My MBP arrived last monday (finally settled on the 2.5 w/ 7200 rpm: I was able to save a couple hundred since my dad works for the USPS), and of course the first thing I did was turn it on and start checking the display, running misc. programs to see if everything seemed to be working fine, etc. Half an hour later, I closed it for the first time and noticed that it didn't quite close flush. 'Huh, that's odd,' I thought, but since I am a bit (read that as "major") perfectionist, I considered the possibility that I was just imagining things. So I went and showed it to my mom. Her response? "Huh. That looks warped."
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It is such a tiny little thing, I seriously thought about trying to overlook it. But for that much money I just couldn't...maybe if it was even on both sides, but it's notAnd as my sister put it, when it's closed there simply shouldn't be any "give" in one corner of the lid, from a safety standpoint, and also because that leaves room for things like dust to get in.
So, after talking to my family and comparing my MBP to the picture they have on the website, I called Apple. They reassured me that I wasn't crazy to expect perfection, said that it is supposed to close completely evenly and flush across the front, and then started the return process (...after I was bounced around between five different customer service agents, one of whom said I wouldn't be able to exchange it since I had already turned it on, and another that said I would have to send it in and they would evaluate it and fix it "if they could" --- On retrospect, that is an incredibly unacceptable thing to say to someone who has found a defect, no matter how small, on a $2,300 dollar machine they have just received).
It does not seem to be going smoothly. It has been 6 days now, and all that has happened is an update on my order status page to reflect that the return is in progress, as well as an email on Wednesday saying I would get my return labels within 48 hours. Even adding that 48 hours onto the original 48 the people on the phone said the labels would arrive within, that time has expired. I can only hope that once the holiday weekend is passed everything will speed right along.
Judging by some of the responses to this thread, this isn't the course of action all of you would have chosen. And the longer I wait for everything to sort out, the bigger the knot is getting in my stomach wondering whether I did the right thing. It really doesn't help that there is a MBP sitting in the next room that I'm having to avoid touchingPlease tell me, did I make a bad decision based on Apple's "misleading Mbp pictures"?
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You're quite right. You will never find a perfect ANY laptop, because, well, they don't exist. I don't think there's any real evidence which says Apple's quality control is worse than other computer manufacturers overall. I could be wrong, and if I am, please point it out to me. Inspirons and other laptops also have gaps when shut, and by any pragmatic standard, I think the built quality of the MBP is just as perfect as any other similar laptop.
i have two hp pavilions and they dont have any gaps and they close like the macbook (i dont know if its because they dont have a latch) but still
all the hp's ive seen have no gaps, and ive seen alot
i have this one, one in black and one in white
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great build quality i must say, really solidbut vista sucks
Yea right. I just fixed two friends dead hard drives, roommate has a broken hinge and another keeps over heating.
I was going to mention that.
Just bend it back.
If both sides of the screen are creeping away from the case, just put a quarter or two in the middle outside edge of the case (by the trackpad button) and gently push the LCD frame edges down with your thumbs with the top closed. Walaah--level screen.