Dropped my 2012 Macbook Pro. Dinged corner. Still seemingly works fine. Cause for concern?

I own a mid-2012 Macbook Pro.


Earlier this afternoon, I had it in my backpack (in a specially made pocket for laptops) and I had just put the pack down on a bus bench when my top-heavy backpack decided to do a somersault onto the concrete. It wasn't until I got to my destination and turned it on that I realized that one of the corners of the screen had been dented in the fall.

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The computer seems to run just fine. The glass in the screen isn't even cracked at all. The bent metal of the corner seems to be the only damage. It seems like the only worrisome thing is that the bent corner scrapes against the computer itself when I open or close it.

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Still, should I be worried?

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null

Posted on Sep 14, 2017 6:04 PM

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Sep 14, 2017 7:32 PM in response to dggxam1

Hi,


It doesn't pay to worry, whatever's going to happen to it is going to happen. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if nothing else resulted from this. The bottom case looks undamaged, and if something happened inside it, it probably would have manifested itself by now. As for the top, I would think if the display was going to crack, it would have done so in the fall. In the end, there's nothing you can do but use it, so that's what I'd do. 😉

Sep 15, 2017 9:37 AM in response to tjk

Okay, now something has happened and now I'm particularly worried!


For a while, whenever I turned the computer upside-down or at a high angle (which I usually do frequently), or when I shake it, I heard a loud, sharp rattling sound, like something plastic was loose in there. I only noticed it about half an hour ago. Now it appears to have stopped.


Now I'm noticing a quiet 'tick-tock' noise emanating from the computer at approximately 5-second intervals.


I'm now moving this discussion to a new page: Odd sounds coming from Macbook Pro. Something loose in there? What should I do? (QUICK ANSWERS APPRECIATED!)

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