[Ti] Do Aluminum books need screen protection?

[warwick teale]

Hi Jerry, the anwser is YES - they do scratch outside and YES - the 
screen get scratches and kbd marks on it.

Frankly I have had 4 x screens replaced on this 'new' 1.25Ghx AL15 inch 
(sept 2003), screens 1-3 were just faulty with dead pixels, bad catch, 
dark areas - all ok now thanks to the apple blokes here in Hong Kong 
(can't complain)...

BUT i LEFT the piece of plastic separator that came with the all that 
was taped onto the screen.

This has served me well.

You could do something similar - I used a sheet of A4 paper for my old 
Ti for the screen - worked great form protection of my overly sweaty 
hands (I work hard! :) )

As for overall protection (and this is a list chestnut) these PB's are 
fragile, especially when you go through airports all over the world...

Best buy for me has been a Pelican 1490 Case -its for laptops - made by 
the same crowd that do big caera and watertight cases...

its been the best yet over RIMOWA and other soft and rather useless 
laptop cases

hope that helps.

w
On 12/05/2004, at 12:24 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> Most of us with Titanium powerbooks now have subtle indentations in our
> screens where the trackpad edge and keys have rubbed on the screen 
> while
> closed.  This is apparently because Apple cut the margins a little too 
> thin
> when designing the world's thinnest laptop.
>
> Since I have a new alumnimun powerbook on the way, I must ask, has 
> Apple
> fixed this with the aluminum versions, or do I still need to put 
> something
> in between the screen and the keyboard when transporting my new 
> aluminum
> powerbook?  I'd appreciate hearing from someone who has had one for a 
> long
> time and given it a lot of use and a lot of transporting.
>
> Jerry
>
>
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