[Ti] How does the screen latch work?

[Jerry Krinock]

Thanks, Philip - I just watched it with a flashlight.  Now I understand how
it works.  It's magnetic.  You can also pull it out with a refrigerator
magnet.  Smart folks at Apple.  No wonder why we're willing to pay so much
for these machines.

To answer my question, though, I suppose it is possible that the hook in the
screen/lid is damaged but more likely that the latch in the bottom is
damaged.  The hook is obviously made of steel, and looks beefier than the
latch plate in the bottom, which looks like aluminum (or titanium?).

Jerry 

on 03/03/09 21:40, Philip Booth at pcbooth at swbell.net wrote:

> On 3/9/03 11:06 PM, "Jerry Krinock" <dearjerry at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm considering buying a used 800 MHz Ti which supposedly has a half-broken
>> latch that "you have to squeeze to make work".
>> 
>> The problem is obviously either (a) in the bottom part where the button is
>> or (b) in the slot up there in the screen.  If the problem is (a), the
>> worst-case is that I get a new latch from pbparts.com for $89 USD.  But
>> what's up there in the screen lid?  Is there any chance something in the lid
>> could be broken?  That would probably be a show-stopper.
>> 
>> I've read some messages on this in the archives but we don't seem to have
>> resolved this issue.
>> 
>> I do rather admire this latch, though.  My friends with Dark Side laptops
>> have this ghastly hook hanging down from the screen.  Apple has apparently
>> invented a way to hide the hook.   How do they do it?
>> 
>> Jerry  
>> 
> I was wondering the same thing and closed my Tibook slowly and either
> because of magnetism or position sensing the hook comes out of the top and
> engages the latch in the bottom of the machine. At release the hook
> withdraws into the top. I don't know much more that that.
>