Dropped Macbook - hinge bent?

Well the unthinkable happened to me this morning - as I was getting up from using my Macbook the loose end of an ipod cable that was still connected got caught between my toes and my macbook went flying off my desk while it was still open. It landed open with the screen and keyboard facing down. Luckily it somehow didn't get damaged (as far as I can tell so far) except when I close it the lid is a little out of alignment. This thing is more rugged than it looks! My first question is, is this something I should bother getting fixed, as far as the magnetic latches not being lined up exactly?

Also, should I take it to a genius bar just to have them check it out and verify that it still works after being dropped in case something goes wrong in the future? My thinking is that if something like the HDD goes and they see the misaligned lid as evidence of a fall, they wouldn't want to fix it.

Thanks!

Posted on Jul 15, 2007 6:53 PM

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Jul 15, 2007 7:10 PM in response to Eric von Oeyen

Hi Eric,

glad to hear that the lcd and macbook still working.

yes, you can consult genius guy, but re-align your hinge might cost you since that caused by user.

There also third party tools with instruction how to adjust hinge yourself, but if you still under warranty and play with that, I'm afraid it will void the whole warranty if something get worse.

For your HD and rest of macbook try to run hardware check by starting using installer disk and press D while it boot up and run it.

Also you can boot up while pressing C with your installer disk in there, choose language, open utilities > disk utility > repair both permission and disk.

Good Luck.

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