Mind the Gap!
What's with the gap between the lid and the chassis in the new 15" and 17" PBs? I never noticed it before on the Rev A 17" and TiBook (though I rarely saw them first hand). Is it a manufacturing fault (latch/hinge), an architectural requirement (cooling), a design feature, or something else?
It kind of annoys me looing at the pictures at www.apple.com/uk/powerbook/. WHY THE GAP? When I first saw pictures of the new PB on the 16th I thought they had just been bodged together on Photoshop and weren't real photos. But now I've seen real photos and the gap makes the whole notebook look unrefined and less robust.
It kind of annoys me looing at the pictures at www.apple.com/uk/powerbook/. WHY THE GAP? When I first saw pictures of the new PB on the 16th I thought they had just been bodged together on Photoshop and weren't real photos. But now I've seen real photos and the gap makes the whole notebook look unrefined and less robust.
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Of course, I could be totally wrong. But I don't think so. It's being talked about at macnn.com forums and arstechnica.
My dad's TiBook also has many key marks on the screen. I assume putting bumpers on the screen to prevent that is a good thing. I wouldn't worry too much about the gap.
Originally posted by pscates
Maybe DaveHagan and others can confirm, but I think there are little bumpers on the display that create a gap. I'd assume it's this way so there's some gap between the keyboard (finger oils, Fritos crumbs and whatnot) and the display.
That's the right reason, but the bumpers don't actually cause the gap; they don't even touch the bottom case unless you squeeze the lid shut. I'm sure the gap is there by design, to address the screaming of TiBook owners who complained about the grease marks on their displays.
It is quite a change from the Ti, which fit together so snugly. I'd take the Ti case with the revised guts in it any day, but apparently Apple DOES listen to its customers. Who knew?