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New rMBP Came with Fingerprints on Screen
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Did you buy from Apple or a 3rd party?
Also foil? I've never bought a mac that came wrapped in foil
Obviously not normal at all, every mac I've bought has had significant plastic wrapping that doesn't allow for the machine to be touched without it being painfully obvious (the tabs tear/don't stick back together again etc)
Also foil? I've never bought a mac that came wrapped in foil
Obviously not normal at all, every mac I've bought has had significant plastic wrapping that doesn't allow for the machine to be touched without it being painfully obvious (the tabs tear/don't stick back together again etc)
As Schtumple said, the rMBP itself should have been tightly wrapped in a plastic skin with multiple sticky tabs. Also, there should be a sticker seal that has to be broken to unwrap the unit. The exterior box could be re-shrink wrapped to match the original, but it's unlikely the rMBP itself could be re-packaged to match the original Apple wrapping.
Could possibly be QA, although I've actually never heard of this happening before...
Here's an unboxing of the rMBP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwo8zHwg4P0
If you see any differences, you might want to be worried.
Here's an unboxing of the rMBP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwo8zHwg4P0
If you see any differences, you might want to be worried.
Was the sticker on the plastic sleeve encasing the computer torn?
If not, someone at the factory probably just did a sloppy job are cleaning it before packaging it up.
If not, someone at the factory probably just did a sloppy job are cleaning it before packaging it up.
I know I might get crap for this but if it were me I'd return it. That's not how a brand new computer should come.
Return it because it has fingerprints? Don't be ridiculous please, if its perfect without any physical defects there is no need to return it.
Gosh there are some of us here like myself awaiting our 3rd replacement because we can't get one that doesn't have a cat piss yellow screen and there are people returning them for fingerprint smudges when everything else works? I'd kill to get your machine if that is the only problem.
its not the fingerprints but the fact that the fingerprints mean the machine has been messed with when its supposed to be brand new
I can kind of understand how the OP feels. My first 2012 15" rMBP came with a nose hair on the trackpad. It didn't affect the performance of the machine, but it definitely wasn't a nice thing to see upon opening it.
The battery in that computer was faulty so I got a replacement which luckily didn't have any nose hairs!
The battery in that computer was faulty so I got a replacement which luckily didn't have any nose hairs!
I don't even want to guess how you know it was a nose hair and not some other type of hair.
It just had that special something that made me think it couldn't have come from anywhere else. I recorded an unboxing of it so it is well documented!
Not your money dude.
For fingerprints? Really?
Again, not your money. If I'm spending that much money, I want to be certain it's in perfect condition.
When you spend your own money and see fingerprints on it, then you do whatever it is you wanna do.
In fairness, when a person posts about something on an internet forum, it's pretty much expected that people will respond to all aspects of the topicespecially when the original question posed on the subject has an obvious answer. (In this case, the only question was whether it's normal to have fingerprints on the screenand obviously, the answer to that is no.)
I think you've missed the point. The OP is worried he didn't get a squeaky clean, brand new computer, but paid the squeaky clean, brand new price. Whether the warranty is intact is irrelevant.
