Retina Screen Crack

Try taking it in to the nearest Apple store and show them how well you've treated it (you have an external case along with the belkin felt/leather sleeve and you had in in your rucksack) and yet the screen still cracked. Maybe it was a defective piece of glass on the screen or some other manufacturing defect. Perhaps Apple keeps a database and knows if other retina macbooks in the same manufacturing lot have an inordinate number of cracked screens. also some apple resellers offer screen breakage coverage for an extra fee (not sure if apple does) - did you purchase it when you got it? Bestbuy does this but not sure who else does. Too late now if you didn't probably, but never hurts to ask.

Good luck

Bummer -- Interesting piece of modern art?

Take the top of the hard plastic case off and see if there are some dents or dimples or somthing that looks out of place on the top metal side (it should be a rather smooth surface with no sudden or gradual dips or bends - looks to me like it might have been damaged from the top side and not the glass side. Could it have been "flexed" in some way?

Try displaying a full screen of blue and then red and the green and then black pixels so you can see which of the pixel planes is worse? GIMP or Photoshop or some other pixel app could easily do this.

Hey PipNFresh,

That's awful

So we're talking about the vertical lines on the left side of the display?

That looks like a separation of the cable that drives the vertical array. It's separated from the display itself.

Or,

It's possibly a GPU problem but I'd tend to go with the seperation.

So it seems like your rMBP is pretty new. Call Apple and at least get a case going.

BTW these large displays (Or any display for that matter.) don't like being flexed around. That can happen inadvertently when it's in a bag w/ a lot of books.

Apple doesn't need to know that however.

If the warranty is still in force they should replace your screen.