Macbook Case Has cracked

and was there something you wanted to ask?

thanks for the heads up, i guess 🙂

Maybe the case had a hairline crack in it all along but its just got worse with the normal moving and carrying about. Could be that the plastic was slightly damamged when the macbook was assembled, someone not being as careful as they should have been.

Of course, someone may have just knocked it onto the floor, put it back and not told you about it!

I don't know if knocking it on the floor would cause a crack to start from the point that it does. Could be that someone picked it up by that corner and that might cause a crack to begin where it does from the top down. The way that the plastic above it seems to be bowed right there suggests that that corner was flexed downward, which would be consistent with someone picking it up by the corner. Sound reasonable?

Or you could be right. It may have just had a hairline crack the whole time.

Either way, it may be difficult to get them to replace that under warranty. No doubt they'll replace the parts affected by the spotting.

That's certainly your choice. I wish you luck.

This is a difficult one as I appreciate your disappointment. The position of the crack would suggest it may have received a knock in the corner. Your best bet is to approach Apple about this issue and also the staining problem. Its likely you'll have to pay for the replacement of the bottom case as a weakness of the case is not a known problem.

MacBook - base model Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2gb A-DATA RAM

josh, some people have had problems with the battery bulging (mostly with MacBook Pro, I believe). Seeing where the crack is and looking at picture #3 on your site, it seems like it could be the case with yours - like the bulging battery cracked the case...?

My case has developed a crack on the hinge at the back of the macbook. My lid used to be slightly wonky which was really annoying, but the other day I notcied that the lid was now straight - which was great. Then i realised there was a crak in the plastic near the hinge, which suggests to me that the pressure from the wonky lid has caused the plastic to snap.

I'm taking my macbook to an Apple store on Wednesday to get them to have a look at it and hopefully to swap the case. I also have discoloured plastic on the trackpad button, so they will likely replace this anyway.

Also i have mooing and whining problems but believe this will be fixed in a firmware update one day.

Anyway I'm gonna go them and show all these problems I have with my macbook(moo, whine, right hand hinge bulging form the casing, now a crack on the hinge, discolouration, and a wierd squeeky noise that comes from the mac. this isn't the whine its a different noise altogether), and hoepfully they'll either send it for a free service, or replace it on the spot (i'm doubtful of the latter).

Anyway if they dont replace it on the spot the service is oging to be practically replacing every component in the laptop. i guess i'll wait and see what happens.

Did you get this resolved ?

I have a crack and it sounds like it is in exactly the same place

See my own photos at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53958320@N00/?saved=1

Someone else posted pics on this forum :

http://forums.macnn.com/66/ibook-and-macbook/313408/white-macbook-crack-anyone-e lse/#post3170382

I am waiting to see what Apple say ..

Its on the bottom left hand side of my macbook, there is what looks like a very small crack that has appeared over the weekend (14/15 October 2006). It has NOT suffered any drops or impacts - and from the way the plastic looks it
seems to be bulging outwards. I look after my macbook very well.

At first I thought it looked like a scrape - but looking at it closer, there is a slight bulging / unevenness of the plastic

I have checked the battery for swelling and it seems fine. The only other comment is that if you look / feel down the plastic on the front there are a couple of minor bumps going outwards.

Why Me ?? 😟



Macbook 1.83 1G Ram 4H623 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 5G Ipod 60GB,.4G Ipod 40G. BSOD, P4 XP Pro Desktop. Very happy switcher 🙂

My case has cracked as well. I'm the one that started the forum thread which was just linked above:

http://forums.macnn.com/66/ibook-and-macbook/313408/white-macbook-crack-anyone-e lse/

Someone else has posted pics of their macbook with the almost exact same looking crack as the one in my macbook. So we have 3 sets of similar crack pics in that forum post so far.

This issue is real. And there's no way I or anyone else has even come near to mistreating/dropping my macbook.

I'm calling apple tomorrow morning, I've decided. I'll let you know how it goes. I'll point out that I'm not the only one with this issue.

yes. i have that crack too. and posted on this forum: http://forums.macnn.com/66/ibook-and-macbook/313408/white-macbook-crack-anyone-e lse/ too.

its definately not an abuse issue, and as far as i noe, it is only week 23 macbooks that have this problem.


heres just one of the pics.. go to the forum stated above for more.


G5 Dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 360gb hd, 3gb ddr ram, 20" Apple LCD, MacBook 13"

I called AppleCare, even though I don't have AppleCare protection plan and am out of my 90 period for free support.

The guy on the phone was pretty nice, I explained the crack and that I've been very careful with my macbook. I told him that I posted online and other people are having the same exact issue. I also alluded to that I think it may be the battery bulging, although it's hard to say because there's not much of a physical bulge, but the uneveness can be felt.

A box will be here tomorrow (no cost). Hopefully it's fixed and they don't just send it back saying it's my fault because it definitely is not.

Exactly the same thing as you describe; cracks at the hinge and a discolored trackpad-button. Keep us updated!

Mine also displays this problem.

Pictures here: http://flickr.com/photos/patr1ck/278624066/

Apple should repair this under warranty, but will they?