MacBook rattle - loose battery?

So just like all of you I experienced this same issue after just spending $2000 on a brand new Macbook Pro.

That woudl be true if this was the MacBook Pro forum area, but it is not. This forum area is for the 12" Retina MacBook, not the MacBook Pros.

Yes, my MacBook has had the rattle since new. I finally got around to dropping it off to be serviced at the apple store. They did not have the wherewithal to work on it there, so had to send it out. When I picked it up, much to my surprise, they said the repair tech said the noise is "normal". Very irritated that a $1500 piece of top quality apple product would do this. Should have just kept my Air instead of "upgrading" lol.

Hello, have you still problem with sound from your macbook 12 inch? If yes, please let me know on ********@me.com thanks

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Dobrý den,

píšu česky, zatím jsem narazil jen na Vás tady z Čech. Nevím, zda jste do fóra psal s tím, že můžete poradit, jak na ten problém s cvakáním, nebo jste jako já doteď sháněl informace. Měl jsem přetrvávající problémy s tím klikáním "v displeji" MB 12 Space Gray cca 2 měsíce, v iStyle mi moc nedokázali říci, čím to je, nicméně mi vyšli vstříc a po několika reklamacích a opravách mi vrátili peníze. Koupil jsem nový kus a poté zjistil (při kontrole vystavených kusů na prodejně a po rozbalení několika nových krabic), že to skutečně dělají snad všechny. Teď mám 4. kus (stříbrný - prý je na ně méně reklamací...), první den, zatím nic necvaká, ale těžko říct, co nastane. První kus začal cvakat až cca po půlroce užívání. Většina jich však cvaká hned.

Diagnostika servisu zněla "uvolněný LCD panel", jednou tvrdili, že je to trackpadem, nicméně obě varianty zcela zavrhli na Apple podpoře, kam jsem se včera dovolal. Nějaký zahraniční manažer mi sdělil, že o tom vědí a že jde o vadu při montáži, nikoli hardwarový nedostatek. Nyní se údajně čeká, jak se k tomu Apple postaví, zatím prý "sbírá podklady". Doteď ale netuším, co to v tom vlastně hrká.

Doufám, že se to brzy vyřeší.

S pozdravem

Martin S.

Mine does it too. It definitely coming from top part and and think its the lcd panel switching left and right.

When mine is closed and if i squeeze it a bit with index and thumb finger so i "trap" the screen inside the casing it actually become silent. As soon as i let fingers go the rattle or switching comes back.

I mean it bothers my electronics OCD as well but its nothing alarming, its just disturbing and once you know its there you keep shaking it 🙂 even tho in nornal circumstance you would never be shaking your mac around..

I know this is way later than you posted this question but have you by any chance found a solution? Cause I just bought the 2016 rMB and I've been facing the same problem so I took it to the apple service center and they opened it up and said it was the display. And so he replaced the display free of cost but now, 10 days later it's happening again, and it's exactly how you described it to be. What'd you end up doing to solve the problem?

On mine it is the screen (easily tested by gently pinching the screen), and it's not normal. It's something that has started only recently. I have a 2nd MBP here and that doesn't make the sound.

I have this problem too. And the sound actually comes from the screen. It appears to be the light guide plate inside the screen assembly which is only glued by a thin flimsy adhesive.

It is the screen. I had mine replaced a few weeks ago under Apple Care. Problem solved. Time will tell if it happens again.

And I found from the Internet that Apple's laptops produced from 2013 to 2016 all have the same issue like this. I am just wondering that why Apple has done nothing about it.