Purchased my MacBook on 30th August 2008. Its a Black model with 2.4ghz Core2, 2GB Memory, 250gb HDD, etc. So its like 2 years and 5 months old, out of the 12 month warranty yes but I've heard a bit about these problems elsewhere...
Its pretty much been faultless, bar having a dodgy charger lead at one point which was replaced without question. Although, over the past 6 months or so I've only just noticed a few issues with it.
First problem is - The left hand side of the bottom casing (to the left of the trackpad/where your left wrist would rest when typing) has bowed/bent down. When you look at the laptop from its front edge, the whole front left side is warped quite badly - so much that you can look at the battery underneath and the edges of it are raised like it does not fit properly, confirming the bottom of the laptop case is no longer flat..
Weird thing is I rarely use it anywhere other than flat on a desk - so I don't understand how its happened. Its never been dropped, banged, knocked or anything like that, and its in pretty much mint condition bar a bit of wear on the edges of a couple of the keys through use.
The second problem is - Over the past week or two I've noticed a flickering from the bottom left hand corner of the screen. It probably effects around 15% of the screen width, starting in the bottom left side going to the right. Sometimes it does it, whereas others it wont - I'm assuming its probably an issue with the back light, as you can still see the contents of the screen - the issue is it just flickers (and its very annoying)..
If I took it into the Apple store I purchased it from does anyone think I would have valid points for complaint? I might have expected this from a 4-5 year old laptop (I've got ones that are older and still in faultless condition compared to the Mac), but not a 2ish year old one.
Everything else functions as it should, battery life is still great, its just the above problems im not to impressed with - even more so because the Apple products carry a higher purchase price over the equivalents available. I could have purchased one for half the price and I bet I would not have had these issues within the timescale...
Cheers if anyone has any advice/experience with similar issues...
Its pretty much been faultless, bar having a dodgy charger lead at one point which was replaced without question. Although, over the past 6 months or so I've only just noticed a few issues with it.
First problem is - The left hand side of the bottom casing (to the left of the trackpad/where your left wrist would rest when typing) has bowed/bent down. When you look at the laptop from its front edge, the whole front left side is warped quite badly - so much that you can look at the battery underneath and the edges of it are raised like it does not fit properly, confirming the bottom of the laptop case is no longer flat..
Weird thing is I rarely use it anywhere other than flat on a desk - so I don't understand how its happened. Its never been dropped, banged, knocked or anything like that, and its in pretty much mint condition bar a bit of wear on the edges of a couple of the keys through use.
The second problem is - Over the past week or two I've noticed a flickering from the bottom left hand corner of the screen. It probably effects around 15% of the screen width, starting in the bottom left side going to the right. Sometimes it does it, whereas others it wont - I'm assuming its probably an issue with the back light, as you can still see the contents of the screen - the issue is it just flickers (and its very annoying)..
If I took it into the Apple store I purchased it from does anyone think I would have valid points for complaint? I might have expected this from a 4-5 year old laptop (I've got ones that are older and still in faultless condition compared to the Mac), but not a 2ish year old one.
Everything else functions as it should, battery life is still great, its just the above problems im not to impressed with - even more so because the Apple products carry a higher purchase price over the equivalents available. I could have purchased one for half the price and I bet I would not have had these issues within the timescale...
Cheers if anyone has any advice/experience with similar issues...
