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Apple Replacing Yellowed MacBook Palmrests

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the possibly-useful dept.

Andrew Nagy writes "I noticed recently (as did many other MacBook owners) that the palmrests and general surface of my white MacBook was beginning to yellow. I don't really find it a big deal, but thought I'd check out what Apple was doing about it. They now have a page in their support section dedicated to this issue, but since it just tells you to contact Apple support, I did. I took mine in to the nearest store, and after attempting (and failing) to clean the surface he told me they could order a new surface and replace it in the store... all covered for free under the warranty."

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  1. Re:That is why white sucks by CiaoYunz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We have a G4 iBook in heavy use. It doesn't show any yellow stains on the palmrests. So I guess it's not a problem with white surfaces in general.

  2. Re:That is why white sucks by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Good to hear it is covered, but that is exactly the reason you do not want a white surface if there is gonna be a lot of contact with it.

    And yet this is only a problem with the new MacBooks, not the tens of millions of white iBooks sold over the last 5+ years.

  3. Re:That is why white sucks by Oopsz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    True that.

    I had a sony vaio with dark blue palmrests. After about eight months, they started turning grey/black.

  4. Re:No, this is why Apple sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Someone at Apple was too stupid to pick the right plastic.


    Actually someone at Apple did pick the right plastic but they got a bad batch from their vendor... Apple was able to narrow the issue down to a back of white MacBooks with specific serial numbers.

    Apple has a long history of telling their customers to fuck off when something wrong is discovered in their hardware.


    Simply not true...