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How common are perfect MacBooks?

Is your mbp perfect or does it have a blemish?

  • My computer has an imperfection on it

    Votes: 23 22.8%

  • My computer is cosmetically perfect

    Votes: 78 77.2%
  • Total voters
    101
I swipe my finger gently on all the edges of my MacBook... I didn't feel any uneven or mark at all. So it's perfect.
 
Sometimes after using the laptop for a while, the hinge in the display gets locked (I think) so it isn't smooth when closing the lid.
 
TinyMito said:
I swipe my finger gently on all the edges of my MacBook... I didn't feel any uneven or mark at all. So it's perfect.
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I swiped mine on the rubber part on the edges of the display and it's not smooth at all. Feels aftermarket but I am going to leave it.
 
Realistically, if you actually use your macbook, then soon enough it’ll have atleast a small mark somewhere.

IMO as long as the mark isn’t on the screen or anywhere i’d see it all the time eg the front/keyboard, then I couldn’t care less?
 
ASX said:
Perfect mbp are pretty rare. I doubt many are checking their mbp with bright flash light. Most will find imperfections then.

The sharpened edge on the keyboard level is very common for chips ;).
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Totally agree, I've already exchange my 14'' MBP 3 times, all of them have some defects (mainly scratches and chips), but most of them can only be seen with a bright flash light.
 
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Alameda said:
If you inspect anything closely enough, you’ll find a cosmetic defect.
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Totally agree, I've already exchange my 14'' MBP 3 times, all of them have some defects (mainly scratches and chips) out of box, but most of them can only be seen with a bright flash light.
 
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I've had 2 14" Pro's so far that have a couple very very faint dark verticle lines on the display on white backgrounds. Dont know if i'm gonna try a third..

Never had a perfect item from Apple. Well an item that has a display. Specks under camera glass (about 90% of the time on phones and ipad pros), dead pixels, uneven display temps, the list goes on.
 
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Depends. Does the tiniest bit of backlight keyboard bleed from one of the letters that's only possible to see from a certain angle, classed as an imperfection? Genuinely curious so I can cast the right vote lol.
 
My Apple history:

Bad apples
1) Original Bondi iMac (release day product). Power supply faulty, machine shut down randomly, eventually fixed by apple.
2) Original 27" iMac 1 x dead pixels, 1 x DOA, 1 yellowish screen kept the yellow screen in the end
3) 2011 graphics card died after 5 years
3) 21.5 iMac Hard Drive failure after 2 years
4) iPhone with dust in camera not a big deal
5) iPhone SE random shut downs after a couple of years
6) MacBook Pro cosmetic issue

Good apples
1) 27 iMac 2017 all good
2) 27 iMac 2020 all good
3) MacBook Pro 2010 all good
4) MacBook Pro 2014 best machine ever
5) iPhone 5 all good
6) MacBook Pro so far so good

Conclusion some apples are good, some apples are bad.
 
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imac with glued display, storage replacement is a real joy :D. I would never buy a desktop without accessible hardware.

Intel Alderlake is much faster than m1 max. Wherefor should i need an imac? For this desktops i can use the display i want. Sticking to this slow crappy 60 hz panel is pure pain.
 
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Six0Four said:
I've had 2 14" Pro's so far that have a couple very very faint dark verticle lines on the display on white backgrounds. Dont know if i'm gonna try a third..

Never had a perfect item from Apple. Well an item that has a display. Specks under camera glass (about 90% of the time on phones and ipad pros), dead pixels, uneven display temps, the list goes on.
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The ones on the edges? That’s a limitation of the mini-led tech Apple uses. You’re gonna see this on every and i mean every 14/16 macbook in the world, as well as every 12.9 M1 iPad. Personally it doesn’t bother me at all
 
TheSynchronizer said:
The ones on the edges? That’s a limitation of the mini-led tech Apple uses. You’re gonna see this on every and i mean every 14/16 macbook in the world, as well as every 12.9 M1 iPad. Personally it doesn’t bother me at all
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Oh ya I know what you mean about the edges but mine is more in the center. I've attached a photo but it is very hard to catch on camera. Both had this in different spots. Look near the cursor.

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I don’t understand why someone would get the same brand of product if they continually found defects. I think I would try another brand. A couple times years ago I have gotten computers with dead pixels but that is about it.
 
Do you mean the horizontal lines? It's the mini led array.

@Raebo

Me too. I found out Alderlake is much faster and can be used universally. No need for this mbp anymore.

For laptops Zen 4 and Zen 3 refresh with 3d-vcache and Alderlake mobile is around the corner.

It's very funny. Apple replaced Intel with this dead-end-street m1 and now intel is far ahead.

It can do everything instead of some m1 apps.

Windows PC with socket pcie gen 4 ssd several times faster:


M1 Pro:

https://forums.macrumors.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FwgntjIP.png&hash=54e7a3632ef8c8f085e8eb02ba5ec5db

:D

Soldered ssd good for nothing on customers side. Only good for apples max looting program.
 
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Raebo said:
I don’t understand why someone would get the same brand of product if they continually found defects. I think I would try another brand. A couple times years ago I have gotten computers with dead pixels but that is about it.
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If your workflow or that if your employer is Mac based or that’s maybe all you want to use, there’s no alternative Mac brand available.
 
Raebo said:
I don’t understand why someone would get the same brand of product if they continually found defects. I think I would try another brand. A couple times years ago I have gotten computers with dead pixels but that is about it.
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You've clearly not dealt with enterprise PCs at scale.

There's normally a wide variety in QC on the PC side, in my experience apple are WAY ahead of the PC market for consistency.
 
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Cheap pcs maybe, nobody really cares for a few bucks about minor cosmetic defects. But not for upper class - high end systems.

And this systems are cheaper than this overpriced mac books ;).
 
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ASX said:
Do you mean the horizontal lines? It's the mini led array.

@Raebo

Me too. I found out Alderlake is much faster and can be used universally. No need for this mbp anymore.

For laptops Zen 4 and Zen 3 refresh with 3d-vcache and Alderlake mobile is around the corner.

It's very funny. Apple replaced Intel with this dead-end-street m1 and now intel is far ahead.

It can do everything instead of some m1 apps.

Windows PC with socket pcie gen 4 ssd several times faster:


M1 Pro:

https://forums.macrumors.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FwgntjIP.png&hash=54e7a3632ef8c8f085e8eb02ba5ec5db

:D

Soldered ssd good for nothing on customers side. Only good for apples max looting program.
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Every generation of computers are going to beat each other, people buy Mac because of the macOS integration and ecosystem.

Xcode, Swift, coding and content with tool integration are far better than Windows and Mac are way more reliable than Windows laptop hardware.

I have owned 5 different brands of Windows laptops in the past 15 years. Each did not last 2-3 years, while my MacBook Pro 15 (2011) was still running.

To put that in another analogy, Windows laptops are the American cars cheap and problems pop up later. Mac is the Japanese car (Toyota), expensive at first but in the long run, it lasts.
 
@TinyMito

Then you have bought crap systems. I have heared the same about mac fans who bought some old windows pc/laptops with hdds. Then switched to macbook with ssd and they were so impressed how fast it is. Facepalm.

I have used macbook for a few days. I could not find any benefit of mac os vs. windows 11. In my opinion it is much worse. Not intuitive.


And the browsers (safari and chrome) are awful stuttering when scrolling. My windows 11 is so fluid. No stutters.
 
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