I don't care what anyone says, and I frankly wish that people would stop ignoring this issue-- MacBook cracking. Everyone else I know with a MacBook has the exact same crack above the right magnetic latch. Oh, and then there are the hundreds (thousands?) of corroborating pictures found on the internet. Apple build quality may be less fragile than the rest of the industry in many respects, but when you essentially manufacture the hardware yourself, it is much less likely that such a specific flaw that is so inherent within the design itself will ever be resolved (especially when your marketing pattern requires cranking out the exact same flawed hardware for 2 years after the isssue has surfaced). Conversely, the PC industry has the arguable benefit of putting out many hardware builds which eventually get evolved and refined for known defects over shorter time period. What I really don't get is why fellow MB owners seem to talk about being so glad that they bought AppleCare "because that crack on the palm rest would have been SO expensive to fix!"-- when the flaw was inherent within the purchase to begin with.