in my M1 macbook pro the rubber on the edges of the screen started having cracks, i consulted apple care and they told me they will replace the whole screen and the price will be 60% of the macbook pro, which is very annoying, can anyone suggest me other solutions?
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M1 Macbook Pro Screen Rubber cracks
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As long as it's just tiny cracks you're fine. If big chunks of it come off, that could cause further damage due to metal-on-metal or metal-on-glass contact, but it doesn't sound like anything's actually come off of yours.
Can you post a picture of it?
Can you post a picture of it?
its very tiny cracks only on 2 points, long time back in my macbook gold the rubber was falling off like its melting and coming out from the screen and for some other reason i sold that mb, and thats why i am afraid if it happens with this macbook pro what will be the solution, i am trying to take the picture but its not visible in camera
Not so far and some are approaching ten years old. So far my M1 MBP is still good and if the rubber has issue I'll just do the same as it's certainly not worth the cost to replace and will likely only reoccur with time. IMO is just cost cutting as the older Mac's didnt have this issue. The 2011 15" MBP's rubber seal is good as it was when new, best guess is Apple wants to maintain margin and is trying to avoid price hikes to the customer as does it's suppliers.
My 2015 rMB has the same issue with the rubber dissolving, just make it harder to clean, 2014 13" MBP is going the same way, 2020 M1 good as new. Bottom line is the display is glued/stuck into the housing and tolerances are so tight the seal around the display does next to nothing. I guess damage could occur, but you'd need to be pretty ham fisted to do so as doubt many slam their notebooks closed.
TLDR dont worry about it, from my experience I dont...
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