Sharp edges of MacBook Pro

sometimes I throw posture out the window when I am slouching on the couch trying to do a little work while the wife feeds that baby by my side.

slouching puts your outer palm directly on the edge.... ouch. bummer.

My last MBP 17" from late 2008 did not have this sharp edge.

Easiest/Quickest fix is to get either a Speck or Incase "satin" hard shell. It will make all the difference in the world by slightly covering those edges, plus protecting the finish.

An easier, quicker and 100% free fix is just to prop the back edge of the computer up an inch. Try it.

Its not always an option and sometimes creates other issues.

Its just a bad design.

Apple should boldly admit the wrong design.. and find a solution to it which should be replacing such laptops of customers world wide with soft edges one..till the time this is done they should provide long wrist bands to the customers so that they wear them while working on apple laptops...

RogerWilco,

Where did you get that "resting on the edge when typing or using the track pad, it's bad hand posture"?

There are not any studies that prove this. If you look deep into it there are only about 6 studies total worldwide over computer ergonomics and only one of them doesnt contradict itself. I have been doing it for almost two decades and no problems with the wrist.

Sorry to be so rough but dont give Apple such an easy out and get deprogrammed.

This is clearly a bad design on Apples Part. In my short Mac life I have found Apple is very Arrogant and their support is weak and full of excuses.

I called about the battery not lasting long in sleep mode and was told that 2 days is average. My three year old Dell notebook will go over 2 weeks easily and still have some charge.

I called about the an Apple router not working with my Panasonic camera not working, which did work very well with a much cheaper router. They told me to call Panasonic because they have a very good support team....

On the same call as above I had a Fujitsu tablet that did not work wireless and they did not have a clue.

My only question is how did Apple brainwash so many people to think that they are so perfect?

Come on Apple fix it, give a refund or get out of the business.

Raider

Mac Fanatic wrote:
slouching puts your outer palm directly on the edge.... ouch. bummer.

My last MBP 17" from late 2008 did not have this sharp edge.

I put my outer palm directly on the edge most of the time I use my MBP... and while certainly there is a 90° angle, it does not hurt my hand, even after a few hours of using it.
I would recommend taking your MBP to an Apple Store and see if they will replace it. (or at least go to the Apple Store and see if the edge on the display models hurt your hands too, as recommended earlier) I think this is a factory defect.

Here is yet another MBP customer shocked to discover the sharp edge on the palm hurts to use it. I'm not sure what Apple was thinking, its entirely un-ergonomic this way. Resting your palms is in fact most restful then holding them up, particularly while using the track pad. In order to use the trackpad, I constantly find myself with my palm right on that sharp edge, worse yet...the little pointed corner where the notch is to open the lid is right under the palm there too. I swear it feels like it could draw blood someday. The MBP is beautiful to look at, but all those edges should have been dulled, even the slightest bit would suffice. As is they pretty much demand that some kind of shell be used, which of course defeats the purpose of having such a beautiful looking unibody frame to begin with, if you have to keep it hidden away inside a skin.

Oh by the way, another reason not to have a skin on these computers,a huge part of the heat dissipation of these machines happens through the unibody case itself. if you cover it up, the computer is going to get hot and stay hot.