Uhh, this is a $3000 machine, not something they bought for $10 at Walmart.
Seems, like some others here, you are more interested in the price of things than their value.
My Mac Mini cost me a month's pay. I just took it home and plugged it in where the old one (a G4 2005 original) had been the day before (when the HDD drive failed; replacement was more cost effective than repair) uploaded my backed up files, and got on with using it. Not interested in checking it out for blemishes, I had stuff to do.
How much something costs is irrelevant. Be it toaster, electric jug, camera, computer, or whatever, as long as they function as intended, and provide the bang for buck I expect, I'm happy. Nice to see the odd other with a similar, common sense point of view.
mine has a scratch below the speaker grille too.
not noticeable unless you shine a light on it.
not gonna return it though.
I just got my 15" space gray macbook last night, and I have the same scratch in the same exact place. I've been using it all day long and already forgot about it, I don't even notice it. I won't ask for a replacement because I need it for work and don't wanna wait another month or a few weeks, cause I don't have another machine to work with (I've been using an iPad with bluttooth keyboard these last month and suffered a lot).
For me it's irrelevant, but I guess someone could be bothered.
On the other hand there are those who ramble on, hypothetically speaking about what might be, could be, from a theoretical point of view…...
I'm fully aware that the damage in reality was caused by the purchaser. I specifically premised a hypothetical scenario in which the computer arrives with said cosmetic damage and if that damage should also be acceptable to someone in your mind. It's pretty obvious that if the consumer damages it, then it's their own fault.
You also completely ignored that this scratch could be a symptom of a more serious issue on the line making them. Nobody can know unless somebody goes to inspect the line these are being made on. But keep defending Apple's poor QC and criticizing their customers' decision to remedy it. Hopefully Apple has fixed it, as I'm sure they're probably aware of it at this point.
People here are spending sometimes upwards of $3,000 for these computers. If you think people are returning them because they want to show off their new "ornament" to everyone, sans blemishes, rather than because they feel ripped off for spending what most people consider an exorbitant amount of money for a computer and receiving a blemished product, I don't know what to tell you. But then again you apparently are able to know the thinking of wide swathes of people, as you've made clear several times.
…….. whose obsessive pristine existence is shattered by a blemish. Get a life, I say, in my humble opinion.
