Hi. 
I'm a long time lurker of this forum but I haven't had a need to post until now.
I have a 2009 white Macbook, and unfortunately, the plastic is cracking. The cracks are definitely not as bad as some that I've seen here, but they're still obviously cracks.
First, there's this little chip in the corner of the palmrest.
The palmrest is also doing some weird... spacing... thingy; there's a bit of a gap between the palmrest and the bottom part of the case that was not there when the computer was new (it's very small, though). My trackpad is also pretty badly discolored: it has a nasty yellowish tinge, and this happened sometime shortly after I got the computer in April of 2009. I have no idea what I did to cause it to discolor, though.
There's also this crack in the bezel:
I'm also concerned about these cracks on the bottom, near the hinge (I know they're hard to see, I'm sorry; all I can say is that they're much more obvious in real life):
Now that I look at the pictures the cracks don't seem bad at all. I guess they don't really bother me but I don't think that they should be there, considering that this is a $1000 computer. If I took my Mac to the Apple store, would they replace the parts of the case that are cracked just because they are cracked, or do the cracks have to meet some level of severity?
I'm a long time lurker of this forum but I haven't had a need to post until now.I have a 2009 white Macbook, and unfortunately, the plastic is cracking. The cracks are definitely not as bad as some that I've seen here, but they're still obviously cracks.
First, there's this little chip in the corner of the palmrest.
The palmrest is also doing some weird... spacing... thingy; there's a bit of a gap between the palmrest and the bottom part of the case that was not there when the computer was new (it's very small, though). My trackpad is also pretty badly discolored: it has a nasty yellowish tinge, and this happened sometime shortly after I got the computer in April of 2009. I have no idea what I did to cause it to discolor, though.
There's also this crack in the bezel:
I'm also concerned about these cracks on the bottom, near the hinge (I know they're hard to see, I'm sorry; all I can say is that they're much more obvious in real life):
Now that I look at the pictures the cracks don't seem bad at all. I guess they don't really bother me but I don't think that they should be there, considering that this is a $1000 computer. If I took my Mac to the Apple store, would they replace the parts of the case that are cracked just because they are cracked, or do the cracks have to meet some level of severity?