Top case (where keyboard is housed) layers separating
I just had my topcase replaced by Apple. This is what Apple calls the surface that houses the keyboard, so the name may confuse some who read the title of my post. To reiterate, topcase in this post is not the lid. It's the part your palms rest on. Funny Apple naming thing.
Next day a dog knocked it off the table. The front left corner of the lower half of the case is dented in above the hard drive, the topcase doesn't nest in that corner, and the topcase is separating in two layers. The layers include the darker grey edge that borders the topcase, and set into it is the lighter grey panel that makes up the majority of the surface. It is nested into the darker rim. This light one is the part that's lifting up. I believe it was glued down, but to see in there I'd have to pry it up more, risking more damage. I took the topcase off the computer to look at it from the underside, but there's an under layer and the junction is not visible.
I'd take it into Apple, but they just replaced the topcase, and the bottom case is now obviously damaged and I doubt they would cover it in the 90 day warranty on the Flat Rate Repair they just did (which, by the way, is a way around the recently expired extended 4 year warranty on logic boards for the messed up 08 models).
Anyone know what kind of glue is appropriate to try to sneak in there to hold it down?
Is this a good question?
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It would really help if you could upload a photo. Just hit the images tab in the lower left hand corner of this frame.
by mayer
btw, I'm aware the dent in the corner of the case, which is causing the whole topcase to lift up, is affecting the lift of the light grey layer. I've been trying to bend the lower case back into square, but it's proving difficult. I'll write a different post for that.
by Sue
This does not look like a unibody. Please give us the last three figures of your serial number (located in the battery compartment).
by mayer
It's not a unibody. YJX. If I tagged it incorrectly when I posted, my bad.
by Sue
Apple MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.4 15" (08) Specs
Identifiers: Early 2008 - MB133LL/A - MacBookPro4,1 - A1260 - 2198
by mayer