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Old 11-04-2009, 07:19 PM
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Ouch
My girlfriends macbook fell off of her bed and hit the floor.
There's a small dent and the machine makes the loading sound several more times than usual.

She says otherwise it runs fine.
This is her beautiful school laptop so I'm just trying to find out if she needs a new one or if this is treatable.

Thanks for any help
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Old 11-04-2009, 08:35 PM
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Does it work?

Then okay. If anything, sounds like the HDD took a shock, probably dropped the life span of it a tad.
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Old 11-05-2009, 02:52 AM
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Macbook or Macbook Pro?

Because Pros are built like tanks and you shouldn't have to worry that much. Regular Macbook? Your disk might be fucked. Does she run Time Machine?
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Old 11-05-2009, 07:52 AM
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Take it to a Genius Bar and get it checked, just in case. It should still be covered by warranty.
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Old 11-05-2009, 07:56 AM
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An Apple warranty that covers drops and external damage made to the laptop?

Not unless we're in Bizarro World.
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Old 11-05-2009, 08:11 AM
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You'd be surprised. If you get lucky and find a non-douchebag Genius, they're MORE than happy to cover anything that even remotely amounts to human error.

EDIT: Genome, if there's a dent it's probably a MacBook Pro. Plastic doesn't dent. And it's probably one of the pre-unibody Pros at that.
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Old 11-05-2009, 08:17 AM
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I have yet to meet an Apple service rep that would take care of non-warranty issues as a warranty errand. No Apple Care = No yuo!
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Old 11-05-2009, 04:11 PM
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I have yet to meet an Apple service rep that would take care of non-warranty issues as a warranty errand. No Apple Care = No yuo!
I had both my case replaced and battery replaced out of warranty, though both were known issues.
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Old 11-05-2009, 08:43 AM
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It's a pro, and I know she has a warranty. The warranty does not cover HER breaking it though.
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Old 11-05-2009, 02:53 PM
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Tell them you were the one who broke it?
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Old 11-05-2009, 03:00 PM
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Saying that you broke a Macbook Pro to a Genius would probably render you the reply: "You sir, are worse than Hitler!"
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Old 11-05-2009, 04:38 PM
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Swelling battery and miscolorings in the plastic?
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Old 11-06-2009, 09:01 AM
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Battery had just altogether stopped holding a charge and the plastic was cracking near where the magnets hit.
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Old 11-06-2009, 09:53 AM
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Hey, Luthyr. White Plastic MacBook? I had my case crack near the magnets on four separate occasions. On the fourth time I called corporate and they replaced it with a maxed-out unibody aluminum one.

It's worth a shot!
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Old 11-06-2009, 10:19 PM
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Attempt to get a warranty repair by asking damn nicely. Back it up regularly and don't trust it, but it will probably survive for at least a while.
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