MacBook uneven bottom.

I was going to put my MacBook rocks. 🙂

On a hard flat surface, my MacBook rocks like a table with uneven legs would rock. It's not enough to return it for, but I noticed it for the first time today because I usually compute on my lap.

Anyone else notice this?

TiGig, Mac OS X (10.4.5), 2.16 GHz MBP, 2 Gig RAM - 1 GHz TiBook 1 Gig RAM

Posted on Mar 21, 2006 4:22 PM

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Mar 21, 2006 8:36 PM in response to jim farley

I have a solution that solves this....some of you may not believe me but I will share my experience with you. A few months ago, I purchased a 15" Powerbook which was uneven out of the box. I was thinking about it and thought the shape of the aluminum can slightly warp due to the heat caused inside the Powerbook. Is'm pretty sure Aluminum has a very high melting point but this i the only reason I could come up with. In order to test my theory, I got a cooling pad (like a notebook cooler from Antec) and placed it under my Powerbook. I left the powerbook running for 48hrs straight along with the cooling pad turned on at full speed. I took the Powerbook off the pad after 48 hours and it was perfectly even. That shakiness that plagued the machine when I first got it no longer existed. After that, I always ran the cooling pad when my Powerbook sat at my desk and have never faced this issue since. And that's the end of my "Uneven Powerbook story"!.

Mar 21, 2006 6:20 PM in response to Kyn Drake

Sounds like one of your rubber feet is shorter/taller than the rest.

Try getting a board or other flat surface that's narrow enough to fit between the rubber feet on the bottom, and see if the laptop sits flat on that. If so, then the feet are probably the culprit, and need to be adjusted or replaced.

I know you could get a kit to do this yourself with the PowerBooks, I'm not sure about the MacBook.

If the laptop is still wobbly without the feet in the way, then the case itself must be warped. I would think you'd need to replace the whole thing in that case, if you wanted to rid yourself of the rocking MacBook.

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