I have a mac book pro 15" model A1286 late 2008 the hinges is loser I've tried to replace and they ask me to change all display for £ 400 Than I decide to buy the new hinges and do it on my self but I couldn't find any video to how to change on this model
Info:MacBookPro, iOS 5.1
I have a Rev. A with broken hinges and since it has a small dent in the righthand side, Apple woun't fix it (I have already had a fierce discussion with Apple regarding this matter, so please no comments about extended warranty ;-)
On eBay it is possible to buy a set of new hinges including the grey piece of plastic that breaks with the hinges. Is it possible to replace the hinges on a Rev. A with these spares?
Would love to keep my Air as second machine beside a iMac 27" or Mac Pro.
I own a macbook pro unibody A1286. I spilled some soda on it and I followed everything that you would do when a liquid spill happens. After a few days I turned on the macbook pro and I hear the charm and can see the screen with light on it. The back light had gone out on the unit. At first I thought It would be the screen, so I ordered a new screen and tried it out. With the new screen it is the same, the back light for the lcd wont turn on. Everything else on the macbook pro is functional except for the back light.
I even own a mini display port to HDMI adapter and hooked that up to my TV and it worked perfectly. The isight camera works, all the ports work, speakers work, optical drive works. Just the Back light on the LCD does not.
I just got MBA a couple months ago and since that time I have been babying opening and closing the screen because I have read the about the inevitable demise of its hinges. My question is how long did you have it until they begin to become loose and have a lot of play in them?
View 10 Replies View RelatedMy Macbook pro is only a few weeks old, and being it is my first Mac, I wanted to know if anyone has had any issues with the hinges on it?
They seem to be a little loose, in which if I move the system, the screen will move at times. Is this normal? I am not sure how loose the hinges should be
It is slighly loose, and I know it won't be a big deal to fix. I'm just scared that it will cost a lot to repair.
View 7 Replies View Relatedso I have recently purchased my pro and just noticed that if I pick it up at an angle the screen moves.
My 3 year old pc laptop does not do that. Is it just me being anal or is it a problem?
I just want to make sure because I have already taken my iphone4 back 3 times and my ipad. So I beginning to think its me!
Just curious are they pretty tight or loose? And I would think the anti glare would be lighter thus tighter?
View 24 Replies View Relatedi tried to make a post that was long and detailed but it did not take for some reason so i will try to make this one short and to the point.
bought a new MBP 2.5 (about 4 months ago) right before the 2.66 with the price drop was released.
had various issues and had to swap it out 3 times which my new local store had no problem doing. so i finally got a machine with no defects and working perfectly. was very happy.
the other day i had it sitting on the coffee table on with the screen open, i picked it up to move it a few inches and heard a loud CRACK. now my screen goes back further than it should and it slightly tilted to the left. the gap between screen and body is slightly larger on the right side than the left.
i had planned on purchasing apple care towards years end as i have done with the last 6 machines i have owned in the past. i am going to take it into the genius bar for replacement or repair but am afraid they are going to say i broke it somehow... i treat this thing like a baby and there is no reason the hinges should have cracked from just picking it up and moving it while open. it is still working, but i can not deal with the thought that the hinges are now weakened and are definitely going to break eventually (sooner than later now that this has happened) not to mention the gaps between screen and body and being a bit crooked. also, if i open it past 90 degrees, it falls all the way back to the point where it finally catches, which is a lot further than it used to retract. the hinges are definitely more loose and not as tight as they should be. i have never had more issues with a model in my life until i bought this unibody.
so what are your thoughts? what i am really worried about is them saying i broke it somehow and not honoring the repair or replacement (which is not the case) or when i do purchase applecare towards the end of the year that this will be noted and if not fixed properly or replaced then they will not honor the repair if it actually completely breaks. as i think it will eventually if i do not have something done about it ASAP. (if it is noted on the account when i bring it in today or tomorrow) i have never picked up one of my macs with screen opened to have the hinges snap (being only a few months old)
I dropped my MBA rev. A last week (jun 23rd) to the Michigan Ave Apple Store.
I keep checking the online repair status page, it only shows "repair in progress" since then.
More interestingly I dropped my MBA after they ordered and got the replacement parts for me.
Originally I was thinking they would fix it in 15-20min, but has been 7 days and still in progress.
I called store, but there is no live-person answering repair calls, it does give exact same information as the web-page.
I don't want to drive there if it is not fixed, but I need my computer for my work.
After the second display change in genius bar, everytime they change the display it sounds more. First sounds like if you're smashing grains of sand and for a moment, it sounds like a choke with plastic (not a big deal, a tiny sound), and then sand again. The plastic part, just sounds once (everytime I check the sounds). Apple guys says that this is normal... (?) and after some months will not crush anymore.anybody has experienced in his own macbook pro that the shift key gets stuck while you press it for a long time ? (maybe 6, 7 seconds), and to unstuck it, just pressing the shift key again.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
I just got the 2.13ghz 128gbSSD off of ebay (fnjjor a great deal!). Just arrived today and everything looks great - works great etc. I wanted to see the age of my mba and when I entered the SN into the apple support site - it says that apple needs proof of purchase that whole deal. Well I don't have a legitimate proof of purchase from an authorized site (need to ask the seller), but the MBA is 11 months old according to coconut battery.
1. Should I even get applecare? Hinges can be replaced out of warranty, and I have an SSD that is failsafe. Any other issue would probably be my own fault.
2. I should be ok purchasing apple care through the customer support number yes? I think I did that for a powerbook and was able to buy apple care for it (a 12" G4 no less!)
I've been testing my macbook after hearing some "crec", "clic" when closing the cover.First of all, seems that the display is misplaced, cause when the mac is closed, when you touch the lateral part of the macbook, isn't simetric. You can notice that is not well assembled.
So, when closing, isn't a very loud sound, just a bit, but sounds a "clic" or "creec" when you close the cover.Don't really know if this is normal or what, and if I should use my warranty. My macbook has just a week in my hands, and I bought it new.What do you think ? Should I use the warranty to fix the misplaced assembly and the clic ?Will the click dissapear after some time ?
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Mac Pro
My macbook tends to make noise when I close it, this only happens when my mac is heated up, and it disturbs me because I bring my macbook to school and it's embarrassing when your mac makes those noises. Is it because of the screws? My contract is out of date, and I don't want to attempt anything. Also, my macbook been dropping connections since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, will 10.6.2 be able to fix this update?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI bought my Macbook Pro 15 in April 2012. I am still covered by the one year warranty. I just want to know do the warranty cover a broken hinge? I don't know how the hinge got broken. My Macbook never drop or fell. It doesnt have dents or broken at any other parts. Just my right hinge is broken.
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Mac Pro
My MBA (Mid 2009) serial no W8******9A5. It broken hinges, I brought to premium service in Vietnam check warranty and replace hinges and dislay free all but its serial number don't replaced. I read in apple.com and thought my MBA has one of products affected. What reason my MBA don't replaced?
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MacBook Air, Windows7
I have an old PowerBook G4 (15" alum) that has a dodgy screen that I want to replace. I have another old (non-working) PBG4 and so I want to replace the bad screen with the one from the non-working machine. However, all the instructions that I have found online involve complete disassembly of the whole thing in order to take the actual LCD screen out of the display casing or lid. Is there a way of just disconnecting the entire "lid+screen" at the hinges and then putting on a new "lid+screen"?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am going to be getting my first mac soon, and had some questions...
My budget is pretty limited, so I bought a 15" Powerbook Titanium, with a battery problem and a broken hinge..
Apparently, the practically new battery went from holding a three hour charge to not being recognized by the computer.
Also, one hinge cover is broken. Is that fixable by me, or is that something I need to get a professional to do?
Hey does anyone think they will switch out the CCFL LCD with an LED LCD anytime soon?
or know of any user mods to replace the lcd with a led lcd? on the new macbook.
The hard drive on my Macbook 4,1 is way too slow for me now. I want to replace a SSD III or II onto my Macbook. Does SSD III or II work on Macbook 4,1 White Early '08?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I recently replaced the 4GB with 8GB of ram in my 2010 MacBook Pro. However, the system only recognizes 4GB installed. Went back into the computer and now the top memory card is stuck and would not release to come out. What can I do to fix this problem?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI read news that Samsung is already coming out with 256 GB SSD drives. I'm imagining that Apple will start putting those into the Air mid next year, and wonder what are my chances of being able to replace the 128 GB SSD drive (this is assuming I purchase an Air in the next few weeks) myself when the new ones come out? I remember there have been some threads related to swapping drives on this forum in the past, but none dedicated to those new 256 GB SSD drives, as far as I can tell.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently broke my Macbook's LCD. For some odd reason I followed guide to opening the top case first before I replaced the LCD. Well I've managed to put everything back together besides two things. I can't get the microphone cable . or the inverter cable, back into the logic board. Do I have to use a special computer glue to get them back attached?
my local Apple store replaced the horrendous chipping keyboard on my original Apple refurbed 1.83 GHz Core Duo Whitebook. It feels a lot better now but I can't help but wonder how long it'll be before this new keyboard starts chipping away too, especially considering the well documented issues with the plastic Macbooks.Just as a point of information, my Whitebook is maxed out at 2GB RAM with the stock 60GB HDD and combo drive. My wife and I use this laptop pretty much daily for HOME use: typically for surfing, email, iWork stuff and Parallels/XP stuff. Outside of that, we don't do anything really CPU intensive on it - although the fans will kick in if I have too many Safari windows open, watching a video or doing something in Parallels. I do have Logic, Garageband '09 and Ableton Live installed and intended to do music on it, but I really never use them on the Macbook because the 13" screen seems a bit too small to effectively do anything with them IMO.
View 7 Replies View RelatedJust use a pair of pliers! Worked like a charm.
View 4 Replies View Relatedim new to this forum though i?ve been lurking around here without registering. but now it was time for my first question.i have a Macbook 13.3 with 2.4 Ghz intel core 2 duo, the white plastic one which was the last generation of this model before the unibody came i thinki was wondering which screen to buy for when i should replace it! a friend of mine was a bit unlucky on new years eve, and sat on my mac.... so my screen is now busted. when i look up the model a1181 it seems like its the right the one, but the specs i get for that model is 1.83 ghz- 2.0ghz
View 5 Replies View RelatedI mentioned to someone that I was thinking of buying the optional 128 or 256SSD on the MBP I intend to buy, and perhaps in a couple of years buying an SSD of greater capacity. (The 512 is beyond my budget at present.)
The person I spoke to didn't think this was a good idea because the 128 and even the 256 would soon fill up with photos, and that I would then want a larger drive.
(Backing up an external drive is of course highly recommended, but it's pretty neat to have all one's photo collection on the computer's own drive.)
Replacing an SSD with another, he said, was a "dickens of a job" as the existing (factory) SSD is built into the mother board.
I have a late 2008 Aluminium macbook. I was wondering about replacing the current har drive with an ssd drive. I know I should get fatser boot time etc but does anyone know what sort of extra battery life I would get by using 1.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
the battery of my Macbook White is not ok. It is showing a cross in its icon sometimes and i would like to know how can i get it replaced for a new original one and how much would it cost.Â
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MacBook 2.26 GHz, 2Gb,
