{"id":1150,"date":"2010-12-22T23:47:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2010-12-22T23:47:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T22:47:10","slug":"apples-bad-engineering-my-air-just-snapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/22\/apples-bad-engineering-my-air-just-snapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s bad engineering: my Air just snapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I now get to join the (sadly non-exclusive) club: My Macbook Air just snapped at the hinge, and now the lid WILL NOT close and WILL NOT stay upright &#8211; it just falls flat on the desk, like a book lying open.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m blogging this purely for anyone with an Air who doesn&#8217;t yet know about it &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread.jspa?threadID=1893302&#038;start=150&#038;tstart=0\">this is APPLE&#8217;S FAULT, it&#8217;s a manufacturing defect, and they are (usually) obliged to fix it for free. If they make a mistake, the charge can be anywhere from $500-$1,000 (from reports I&#8217;ve heard) &#8211; so you *really* need to know about this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sob. Whimper. No laptop, and I can&#8217;t even put it back in the case \/ bag &#8211; I have to hold it two-handed to stop it from ripping apart at the seams.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this laptop has been upgraded and repaired before, and has scratches and minor bumps on the case, so I&#8217;m dreading getting ranted at by the Apple staff. This has happened before, when a brand-new Apple power adapter broke within two weeks, and the manager on duty was having a bad day and decided to accuse me of &#8220;deliberately&#8221; breaking it so I could get cash for it. Seriously? I would break my laptop to try and get a $60 refund? Yikes. Get a grip, lady!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I now get to join the (sadly non-exclusive) club: My Macbook Air just snapped at the hinge, and now the lid WILL NOT close and WILL NOT stay upright &#8211; it just falls flat on the desk, like a book lying open. I&#8217;m blogging this purely for anyone with an Air who doesn&#8217;t yet know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}