Apple Macbook Pro 17 inch Hinge Problem

How am I supposed to use this in a car, train, etc...? If I position the computer just slightly out of balance, the screen suddenly drops onto my fingers.

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• Apple
• Macbook
• Pro
• MBP
• C2D
• 17
• inch
• ipod
• Problems
• Problem
• hinge
• screen

[freekuvnatur]

dosent happen to me.

[freekuvnatur]

looks like he got a faulty hinge

[Shy852]

Call a paper clip ............

[milkshakeman53]

LOL

[aerialus]

a couple of years back i had a macbook pro 17 inch too.. the same problem 

[BenyaminTieh]

@BenyaminTieh Well, this isn't a proper solution, you have to keep doing it, not practical if your on the road and probably not a good thing to be doing. I have now bought a glide kit to tighten the hinges but I don't think I am brave enough to do it, its obscenely complicated. Apple are such con merchants.

[BenyaminTieh]

@BenyaminTieh

An update for anyone else suffering. Basically I kept working the lid up kind of pushing it right up forcing it a bit then letting it down slowly then back up, and this seemed to tighten things up somehow. MY MBP is now on my stand on an angle and staying open..Not sure if it will last or not, working for now.

[BenyaminTieh]

@strababitus My 17 inch MBP is like this as well, bit shit, because I have an angled stand above my technics decks for djing with traktor, my 450 pound HP laptop sat on there just fine but my MBP cant sit on there as the lid just closes, what a joke. Apple takes the complete piss - Now they make laptops that you can boil eggs on they are so hot.

1. Can the apple shop tighten it up for me

2. how much will they charge?

Thanks

[strababitus]

Mine is doing this, but it received a ball on the screen...

[randomharass]

why is this is problem, please tell me? This is just silly.

[edlemur]

OMG 2 WHOLE YEARS?!?!?!?!

I can show you hundreds of 5 year old PC laptops that are still in working order. PCs and Macs have the exact same hardware platform. They'll both last as long as each other given that you're taking care of them.

[zezo983]

i've had the macbook 13.3 white for like 2 years and a half now. it's still in fully working order. i believe that apple macbooks are the best computers around the world. by the way my macbook still takes like 25-26 second to restart ( never been recovered ). it's not about the unibody which is a great looking machine. but it's the heart of the machine which has the highest standards which can handle all the heavy working.

the old macbooks are as good as the new unibody macbooks.