does it look that bowed to you? i mean is yours totally straight?Is this a company issued laptop from Boeing? Becuase it looks like your lid has boed.
I'm surprised Apple didn't replace it.
does it look that bowed to you? i mean is yours totally straight?Is this a company issued laptop from Boeing? Becuase it looks like your lid has boed.
I'm surprised Apple didn't replace it.
does it look that bowed to you? i mean is yours totally straight?
The thing I don't get is... why are you STILL discussing this issue?. Forget posting forums comments... GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!.
just because they won't change it...i tried
So youre just gonna give in?. lol.
well do you think that this problem is THAT bad?
i think i can live with it.. or is yours waaay more straight than mine? i think i just leave it like this..
Why are you polling the people on this forum? I would go into an Apple Store asap and let them determine if it is within specs. As you can see, all these people do is call you OCD. It is your money and I would not live with it if it were my $2000.
My 13" MacBook is bowed in exactly the same way. I was unsure if it was the lid or the unibody, but I checked the body with a few rulers and a level, all of which I am fairly certain are straight, and the body looks to be fine. It's harder to check the lid, though, since it has that rubber gasket all the way around it. Instead, I checked the reflection from the glass - if the lid is bowed, that should also be curving the glass, so any reflections should show up curved or distorted in some way. Given that I can easily notice the curve in the lid, there amount of distortion in reflections is quite small. It is more noticeable towards the bottom of the screen, though, which is where the bowing is greatest, so I am reasonably confident that it is in fact the lid which is bowed.
While is does suck a little cosmetically, I am willing to live with it simply because the rest of the laptop functions very well. What worries me, however, is whether heating and cooling of the computer will eventually cause more of a warp in the lid, and if so, could this lead to a cracked screen?
I am not willing to return the laptop to be exchanged or repaired, again since it works essentially perfectly, but reading some comments has now made me wonder if I should let Apple know that I do have this problem. I don't want to wake up one morning to a cracked screen and have Apple refuse to fix it. Any advice?
I just received the replacement for my 2009 unibody MBP that had a streak of dead pixels in the middle of the screen.
Opened the box gave the new MBP the once over and immediately noticed the lid bending away from the body from the middle front with increasing severity towards the left-hand side. It creates a crack large enough to fit a credit card through easily, 3-4mm.
I called Apple Customer Relations and explained the problem. They are emailing the UPS label and exchanging the system as an expedited transaction.
I realize it's annoying to be without a computer for a week but if Apple has chosen to offload product Quality Control onto their customers, the least we can do is to do it well.
When you get your computer give it the once/twice over. If it doesn't look like the ad/promised system send it back. Apple will only start being preemptive about these issues when the tide of returns becomes more costly than the money they are saving by lowering their QC standards.
I love my MBP, I just expect to get what I pay for. It's not something worth debating. Like in poker, certain situations are insta-calls. If you feel like something is wrong with your system send it back.
OMG Steve Ive would be turning in his grave!
It's all cut from one block of aluminum so should be absolutely micron perfect.
OMG Steve Ive would be turning in his grave!
It's all cut from one block of aluminum so should be absolutely micron perfect.