My Problem

Because it was broken.

My Fix

10 min. Done.

My Advice

It's great. Never grab your chick and through it to the bed when the laptop is sitting there. The display screen may suffer.

My Problem

A customer of mine had a friend that broke his school provided MacBook, and they wanted $700 from him for the fix.

My Fix

I usually don't work on laptop hardware outside of disks and ram, but with this easy guide, I thought it was worth a try. Honestly, it was one of the easiest things I have done on a laptop. Don't know if I want to try fixing my son-in-law's glass screened aluminum MacBook, but this unibody model is a piece of cake!

My Advice

Be aware... If you are testing the panel for dead pixels before you button things up (like I always do), the protective plastic sheet on the panel has a design of roughly 30 pixels (in red) in the lower left quadrant. I briefly thought I had a bad panel, but quickly pulled that sheet off to see everything was fine.

My Problem

I was fixing my friend's airsoft gun, while i'm listening good music on my Macbook...well...the gun wasn't empty and the mac was too %!#$ near.............

My Fix

it takes half an hour, most of the time to reconnect the screen connector...but at the end, when i started up my mac and i can see again my iTunes...well, it was awesome!

My Advice

Be patient with the connector..and don't touch the adesive band around the screen ;)

My Problem

The LCD had a line going straight down across the screen with flickering lights after I lost in down from my desk. A hard hit on the upper left corner coused the problem.

My Fix

The tricky part was removeing the screen glass. With the guide it went pretty easy.

My Advice

Remove the glass from the Mac before you dismunt the whole display.

My Problem

Dropped my Macbook and broke the LCD

My Fix

Install New LCD screen. It went smoothly, all but getting the new connector to mate with the ribbon cable.

My Advice

Be patient on the last step, it took me about 5 minutes of coaxing to get the ribbon cable into the slot. Apple doesnt give you much excess cable to work with - I found that using a very small flathead to slowly coax the cable (just barely) into the slot, then using the flathead to pull on the retaining clip worked.

My Problem

The Macbook was used as a projectile...

My Fix

Following the clear instructions on the website, it took me less than an hour to replace the screen. I was also amaized by the speed of the delivery. It took 36 hours for the package to arrive in Brussels from L.A..

A big thank you iFixit for the fantastic service !

My Advice

Go for it ! The trickiest part is connecting the LDC cable to the motherboard but it's relatively easy to do using tweezers.

My Problem

Here's a good one: I placed my 2010 Macbook (not a pro) on the top of a car so I could stop for a while and talk to someone. When we were done talking, I got in the car and drove off. I later found the laptop on the side of the road, beaten up but still booting somehow. I'm pretty sure it was hit by a car or two before I got to it.

My Fix

I didn't use any of the recommended tools, just items that I already had (a knife, and one of those cheap "precision" screwdriver kits). The entire fix took maybe an hour, but I intentionally worked slowly. Since this isn't a Pro, I didn't have to worry about the glass, since there isn't any.

My Advice

The cable that the lcd plugs into is a bit hard to get into place. Also, make sure you put all the screws all the way back in, otherwise the plastic around the screen might stick up a bit and prevent the macbook from closing properly.

My Problem

Cracked Screen

My Fix

Cake!

My Advice

Be carful of the locking clip on the panel - it's fragile!

My Problem

Old LCD is broken

My Fix

Remove the glass is the hardest one... it broken after 10% remove... but the good one: to remove the broken glass is fun.

My Advice

when you change the LCD buy a new Glass ;-)

My Problem

So the reason I had to fix the screen of my macbook pro was because it came crashing out of my bag one day and onto the pavement. A nice dent in the back made a crack in the front that made a nice L shaped colored bar in the top third of my screen. Had to fix it otherwise i'd be doing all my stuff on a much smaller screen andI just don't want to do that.

My Fix

I'm not fantastic at computer things but a buddy of mine is. I handed it to him. He managed to do most of the stuff until I get a phone call from him saying the glass broke. I'm not sure exactly what he meant, after a small panic, he told me about the fragile glass that is on the outside of the LCD that is basically a cover and protector. I can live without it and am looking at a cheap alternative with some glue and maybe some clear plastic. Repair went fine, he told me the instructions on the ifixit website were pretty good but that the glass is so fragile that it is hard to even get on there. I also, apparently, had one of the macbook pro models that didn't have some magnetic strip on the glass so it couldn't just pop on. Had to require hot glue and all sorts of fun. Other than that not half bad. Got my screen back to full awesome!

My Advice

read all instructions. Be very very very gentle.