Horizontal screen adjustment

[Jayhawk Raven]

My daughter shut her MBP (15" Retina) with something inside near the hinge. It put a very small crack in the glass, and now the left half inch or so of the screen no longer works.

I know some monitors have a horizontal screen size and location adjustment. Is that available on a MBP? Is there a way to adjust the size of the screen so that the left edge is not used?

 

[DeltaMac]

Sorry, the only way to fix a broken screen is to replace it.
Damage in the hinge area is not too unusual. I worked in a Mac service shop for several years, and saw that kind of "injury" a few times a year. It's an easy thing to do, and you find out that the screen doesn't like much mechanical stress.
It's also a bad result of the thin laptops. There just isn't much clearance inside for any kind of hard objects when you close the lid.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on who pays for it ), it's an easy fix --- just replace the screen.

 

[Jayhawk Raven]

I have been using the machine in clamshell mode most of the time. I occasionally use it as a laptop, mostly to reply to emails from home.

How likely is it that the problem will get worse?

 

[DeltaMac]

"the left half inch or so of the screen no longer works."
If you can put up with that area of screen not being accessible in any useful way, then it's possible that nothing else will happen. HOWEVER - the damage is caused by stress, and once that happens, then some additional stress (maybe a simple small accidental drop to a hard surface) might cause the damaged area to spread.
Have you ever had a crack in a car windshield suddenly get worse? Used to be a tiny chip, and now it is almost the width of the windshield? Same thing can happen on an LCD screen.
Or, maybe it will stay in its present "working, but annoying" condition until you decide to get rid of the laptop.

Unfortunately, it is not much of a portable when part of the internal screen doesn't work. Your value now is that it continues to be a useful computer for you in clamshell mode, just not with the high-quality screen that it used to have.

Did you find out how much it will cost to replace the screen?

 

[Jayhawk Raven]

The genius bar quoted her $750 to fix it. Online it looks like the part is $350 or so. I don't think I would try this repair myself.

 

[jerryk]

The genius bar quoted her $750 to fix it. Online it looks like the part is $350 or so. I don't think I would try this repair myself.

Check with 3rd party repair shops. When I had then replace the screen on one of my MacBooks it was under $400. But that was a non-Retina MBP back in 2014 or so.