Wobbly display

It's been roughly six months since I purchased my Air, and lately I've noticed that my screen has become slightly more...wobbly. Or well, I don't know if it's become MORE wobbly, I just kinda noticed that it is, anyway. This worries me, since I experienced the same with with my Nintendo DS and it ended up having it's top screen fall off.

When rocking the computer back and forward the screen waves around 1 cm back and forth. Is this common, or is there reason behind my paranoia? If something did happen, would I be able to have it repaired without monetary consequence?

MacBook Air 1.6 GHz 80GB HDD, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Mar 18, 2009 3:50 PM

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carl wolf

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Posted on Mar 19, 2009 7:41 AM

The loose hinge is a manufacturing defect that is covered by the warranty. Continuing to use a computer with a loose hinge will cause the hinge to break, and that is considered to be accidental damage which is not covered by the warranty.

I hate to scold, but why would you or anyone continue to use an obviously broken product? You're sitting there, flapping the display back and forth, wondering what on earth to do. Get it repaired ASAP, or you will suffer a "monetary consequence".

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dchao99

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Mar 19, 2009 1:48 AM in response to Flagcarrier

I would deal with it as soon as possible.

See the Engadget link below:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/macbook-air-hinge-defect-not-covered-by-apple s-warranty/

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