So, I had my beloved 15" in my backpack, and I dropped the backpack from about 3' onto a tiled floor. I heard the soft thud, and cringed. I didn't open it up for a couple hours as I was out the door with the kids.
Opened it up later that night and for sure, there is a horizontal section about 1" high that is messed up along the very bottom. It has the interlaced "every other" scan line look. This can be somewhat fixed by slightly bending the screen, but it usually comes back when I close an open the screen. It doesn't go away when I switch to or from the dedicated graphics So I'm pretty sure its an internal screen thing. Maybe a connector came loose? I have yet to open this one up, but that might be something to check.
No apple care or anything, so I'm on my own on this one, which is fine, it was my mistake.
Question is that I see replacements running about $350-400 for the whole assembly, but then I found a place just selling the "matrix" only. I'm thinking that since the glass isn't cracked that might be possible. I've repaired pretty much every apple product I've ever owned or worked on for the past 15 years, but the screen assembly for this laptop looks to be pretty well glued together. The matrix only is going for $150, which at this point would be the difference between me just living with the problem as is, or buying the matrix and trying to replace just that.
I've peeled apart imacs (not the new ones), extensive surgery on iphones, ipods, macpro's and older macbooks, but this is the first one that makes me a little nervous to crack. Anyone else have success replacing just the internal screen on these?
Opened it up later that night and for sure, there is a horizontal section about 1" high that is messed up along the very bottom. It has the interlaced "every other" scan line look. This can be somewhat fixed by slightly bending the screen, but it usually comes back when I close an open the screen. It doesn't go away when I switch to or from the dedicated graphics So I'm pretty sure its an internal screen thing. Maybe a connector came loose? I have yet to open this one up, but that might be something to check.
No apple care or anything, so I'm on my own on this one, which is fine, it was my mistake.
Question is that I see replacements running about $350-400 for the whole assembly, but then I found a place just selling the "matrix" only. I'm thinking that since the glass isn't cracked that might be possible. I've repaired pretty much every apple product I've ever owned or worked on for the past 15 years, but the screen assembly for this laptop looks to be pretty well glued together. The matrix only is going for $150, which at this point would be the difference between me just living with the problem as is, or buying the matrix and trying to replace just that.
I've peeled apart imacs (not the new ones), extensive surgery on iphones, ipods, macpro's and older macbooks, but this is the first one that makes me a little nervous to crack. Anyone else have success replacing just the internal screen on these?
