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How widespread is the MacBook Case Cracks?

NeXTLoop

NeXTLoop

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Jul 22, 2003
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I currently have a 2.4Ghz Santa Rosa MBP that I'm considering selling to get one of the new MacBooks. My concern though is in regard to the case cracking on the MacBooks. How widespread is this? Is it restricted to earlier models? Or are the more recent models also experiencing this?
 
New macbook owner here. Just got mine yesterday, no sign of case cracking what so ever. In fact, it's absolutely gorgeous! :D Build quality is top-notch. Don't know if I am just lucky or what though ...

Just curious, why would you want to change a 2.4 mbp for a macbook? I would have gone for the mbp myself if not for the price constraint.
 
Fatty McGeek said:
New macbook owner here. Just got mine yesterday, no sign of case cracking what so ever. In fact, it's absolutely gorgeous! :D Build quality is top-notch. Don't know if I am just lucky or what though ...

Just curious, why would you want to change a 2.4 mbp for a macbook? I would have gone for the mbp myself if not for the price constraint.
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haha yea i was wondering that to lol
 
A couple of reasons:

1. I've never been a huge fan of the aluminum compared to the iBook/MacBook plastic.

2. Size
 
my one is a bit cracked in the corner. But that might be because I dropped it... :eek:

they are built like little tanks. I love mine.
 
Well.... based on some polls and topics I had seen here, at MacNN, and on the Apple Discussion Boards, it seemed like the problem was fairly common...

...Maybe not so much...
 
The Macbook Top Case Cracking™ issue is well documented; a bit of searching will reveal a treasure of info.

Take it in, get the tope case replaced, end of story.
 
Snide said:
The Macbook Top Case Cracking™ issue is well documented; a bit of searching will reveal a treasure of info.

Take it in, get the tope case replaced, end of story.
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I know its well documented. My question is whether there is a "tipping point" where certain builds of the MacBooks no longer have the problem. Perhaps a change in the plastic used in construction, less powerful magnets used to close the lid, etc.
 
My wife has a black macbook and doesn't have the cracking. Also we use Macbooks at work and no report of cracking, and we abuse them.
 
kylep6190 said:
Thats not your opinion, it's a fact. aluminum is stronger than plastic
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Sure. But the MacBook plastic is much thicker than the MBP aluminum.

You could also argue, however, that the MacBook plastic is more brittle than aluminum, and would crack in situations where the aluminum would just dent or warp.
 
I have had my MacBook for a couple of months now....my step daughters room mate got the same model as mine about 2 weeks after i got mine....

I was in her apartment last week and he was on his MacBook.....i was shocked to see the state of it.....palm rests all discolored....crack in the case at the point where the raised bit of plastic on the right hand side of the screen bezel hits the palm rest.....

Mine on the other hand is in allmost perfect condition, with no dis colores palmrests and no cracking........

I just think the lad takes poor care of his computer...closing it too hard, and thus causing the cracking...hes even put a huge sticker on the rear of the lid.......i felt like slapping him !!!
 
Mine is perfect, my husband's is a work computer and he's pretty rough with it...ok REALLY rough with it and the only damage his has (white) is a very faint hairline crack above the hinge and its barely noticable, he's had his almost a year I think and I'm guessing is opening his screen past the point it should be but like I said, you can barely see it and its not getting worse.
 
oh and if you have a white one, you can clean the palm rest with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, his looks brand new after doing that.
 
I get it from closing my screen. Even If I try and close it slowly the magnetic latch pulls it down making the bits that stick out on the screen crash into the palm rest. There are cracks on the palm rests and on the screen from this.

One guy I know has it so bad chips of plastic have come off around the edges of the palm rests.:eek:
 
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