Closed Lid Gap?

[hockeyfanatic]

I don't see a gap on mine.

My favorite complaint review was someone giving a router a one star because
the glossy black finish attracted fingerprints.

 

[MultiFinder17]

This is nothing new or out of the ordinary for Airs. My old faithful did that to me, and it never caused any issues whatsoever.

 

[Mrbobb]

There was a similar post last month and when the guy posted the picture, nobody could see any "abnormal" gap.

I think lots of time u noobs make yourselves crazy.

 

[Lord Xeb]

Can you please take pictures from the following angles:

Looking straight down onto the back of the clamshell with the machine closed.
With the machine closed, looking right at the hinges

If that bit, I can probably figure out why it is not sitting flush.

 

[vantt1]

It still amazes me how nit picky macrumors users are...

It amazes me how nit picky MacRumors users are about others' nit pickiness.

 

[yukyuklee]

my 2013 11" air is the same i don't think there is a problem i think its just how they designed it.

 

[motrek]

all the 2013 mba are this way. i've looked at countless ones and swapped a few too due to this. they've raised the rubber groove lining the lid in 2013 so that extra millimeter is causing this gap on the sides. better than the lining being too low and your keyboard getting into direct contact with the screen itself in the long run i'd say!

Don't really know what you guys are talking about. Surely you don't expect the lid aluminum to touch the top case (keyboard) aluminum... there has always been a small gap between the two because of the rubber "gasket" around the edge of the top case. I've had some experience with a few different MBAs and none of them had a gap between the gasket and the top case.

The screen of the most recent MacBook Air that I bought from Best Buy was tilted a fraction of a degree down and forward towards the right. So if you looked at it straight on (as if you were using the laptop normally), such that the keyboard obscured your view of the gasket on the right, you'd still be able to see most of the gasket at the left.

Arguably a small problem that would probably not bother most people but I found myself unconsciously trying to tilt my head a tiny amount to get the angle of the keyboard to agree with the angle of the screen while I was using the computer and it was pretty frustrating.

I went to the Apple Store and saw that a few MBAs there exhibited the same screen tilt. :/

I decided to roll the dice and exchanged the MBA for a new one at Best Buy and the one I currently have is perfect. Very happy with the end result of my pickyness. Glad I didn't stick with the one I originally got. Sometimes these stories have happy endings.