My wife wired my Macbook Air so that everytime I click "buy it now" it shocks the livin hell out of me.
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Sharp edge: This is unacceptable
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Because a proper typing position keeps your wrists elevated, and not in any area where they'd come into contact with the edges of a laptop computer?
+1. Your ergonomics are wrong if your wrists are resting on that edge. They should be up.
Sharp edge is stupid.
The sharp edge on the front of the MacBook Pro 15 is a reason to send it back to Apple. I received one as a birthday gift (60!). It's a great machine, my first Mac. I've been using laptops for years as desktop replacements, mainly for email and web browsing. After trying the MacBook, I looked at a few other laptops. All of them have bevels of some type on the front edge.
I'm hoping the Apple Store will take this stupid design back and wave the 10% return fee. To produce a box with such a glaring design fault is shows a lack of respect for the user.
The sharp edge on the front of the MacBook Pro 15 is a reason to send it back to Apple. I received one as a birthday gift (60!). It's a great machine, my first Mac. I've been using laptops for years as desktop replacements, mainly for email and web browsing. After trying the MacBook, I looked at a few other laptops. All of them have bevels of some type on the front edge.
I'm hoping the Apple Store will take this stupid design back and wave the 10% return fee. To produce a box with such a glaring design fault is shows a lack of respect for the user.
I prefer the straight edge... It looks cleaner and I don't have any problem with chaffing or cutting. Mine just isn't sharp enough to do any damage and frankly none of the other MacBooks are that I have seen.
Sharp edges? Chafed wrists? Jeez, it's all moan moan moan with some people.
Look on the bright side, you actually have a very convenient method of slitting your wrists in frustration at those annoying lines all across your screen
Look on the bright side, you actually have a very convenient method of slitting your wrists in frustration at those annoying lines all across your screen
it depends on whether you are typing (no problem) or primarily using the trackpad (you'll notice the sharp edge more).
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Don't forget the tingling, screen lines, lack of fill-in-the blank, etc, etc. I love my MBA revB (wasn't crazy about the revA) and have had zero problems.
ive never been cut up by either my old black MB or new MBP, but i have had this stupid tingly feeling. well its not so much as tingly as a shock. putting my tongue on a 9V small battery is the same shock as i get from my MBP. ive also had the same shock on my lips (no i wasnt soo happy when i bought it that i kissed it) but when i was leaning over the back of my iMac to plug something in and it felt like having an injection, but maybe 10 needles at once
How the hell do your wrists rest on the front 'sharp edge' .. are your hands gigantic that you can rest your wrist on the edge.. and your super long fingers reach all across the keyboard?
I have never had any problems with any of my laptops .. my wrists do not rest on the edge at all.. they rest on the areas on either side of the trackpad.. I really don't get how people rest their wrists on the edge.
Let's ask society to completely ban all products with edges!
SHARP edges is the main reason I returned the 15" MBP back in January ... it was my first try with a MacBook. Because of how I sometimes sit with my notebook and work the trackpad it literally cut the palm of my hand, drew blood ...
I wrote about it over on notebookreview.com in the Apple forum and boy did I get slammed.
I call it a 'design flaw' something so important and simple was overlooked. To finish the edges on their aluminum notebooks is such a super easy thing to do I can't believe they didn't realize it the prototype/testing phase ... you'd think someone would suggest finishing the edge, common sense and kind of unreal...
But, I still really wanted to try a Mac, so I recently bought the new MBA .. the edges are still as sharp but it's so thin my palm doesn't rest on it the same way.
I have photo's of my cut palm's that I took with my iphone, was going to email them to Apple with a not but never did.
Even with the sharp edges I do love my MBA.
I wrote about it over on notebookreview.com in the Apple forum and boy did I get slammed.
I call it a 'design flaw' something so important and simple was overlooked. To finish the edges on their aluminum notebooks is such a super easy thing to do I can't believe they didn't realize it the prototype/testing phase ... you'd think someone would suggest finishing the edge, common sense and kind of unreal...
But, I still really wanted to try a Mac, so I recently bought the new MBA .. the edges are still as sharp but it's so thin my palm doesn't rest on it the same way.
I have photo's of my cut palm's that I took with my iphone, was going to email them to Apple with a not but never did.
Even with the sharp edges I do love my MBA.
Because a proper typing position keeps your wrists elevated, and not in any area where they'd come into contact with the edges of a laptop computer?
Anyone who uses the trackpad is very likely to rest the palm of their hand on the notebook, therefore your palm rests on the edge of the notebook, it cut my hands and drew blood ....
I'm so glad I saw this thread. Apple should do something, there's been class action lawsuits for a lot less ..
waste of a post ...
fact: the edges are SHARP
fact: it would of taken no cost or time for Apple avoid the problem
fact: if it bothers some consumers it's a valid issue, seems to be there's a LOT of posts about this all over the net the last few months...
people who surf with trackpad notice it the most, I think most people to surf with the trackpad ?
or you can move to san francisco where it's always so cold you never need any short sleeve shirts.....which is probably why i never noticed your problem....but now that you mentioned it i might start feeling it...i think that's how the brain works.....
here you crybabies go....
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Easy fix that lots of people have used here:
Place tape on the edge so not to scratch the computer.
Use the shaft of a tool like a screwdriver, apply moderate pressure to the area and run it along the edge back and forth a few times. Remove tape.
voila
Place tape on the edge so not to scratch the computer.
Use the shaft of a tool like a screwdriver, apply moderate pressure to the area and run it along the edge back and forth a few times. Remove tape.
voila
Sadly, the sharp edge isn't the only flaw you'll have to deal with. Eventually, your hinges will break and Apple will try and shove down your throat that YOU overextended the MacBook Air's screen. Who would force a screen open wider than it goes on a $1800 notebook? Hell, who would do that to any notebook?!
I am about to send back the MB and MBP that I just bought if they do not fix my UNDER warranty MBA. I am so pissed off at the way Apple has treated me. Don't get me wrong, I love the company.. I really do. But man.. the disrespect and general bad attitudes are repulsive.
I am about to send back the MB and MBP that I just bought if they do not fix my UNDER warranty MBA. I am so pissed off at the way Apple has treated me. Don't get me wrong, I love the company.. I really do. But man.. the disrespect and general bad attitudes are repulsive.