Unibody MacBook Pro screws

[wxjunkie]

Anyone know the size of the tiny silver screws used to hold the bottom of the case in place? I upgraded my hard drive recently and lost one.

 

[TheStu]

ifixit.com

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

They will give you one at the Apple Store. I misplaced one of those ultra-tiny screws myself once.

 

[ViRGE]

ifixit.com

Holy smokes, those are some expensive screws! Granted it's a whole set, but still it's $60...

 

[wxjunkie]

Only in Apple-land. Hopefully they'll give me one because I don't need a whole set.

 

[TheStu]

Holy smokes, those are some expensive screws! Granted it's a whole set, but still it's $60...

I think part of the reason is that since you can't really buy them from Apple, they only way to get them is from a system pull. So, Supply & Demand take over. They have basically the only supply.

Only in Apple-land. Hopefully they'll give me one because I don't need a whole set.

I completely forgot about that avenue. They will almost certainly hook you up. The bottom is user removeable so you can replace the RAM/HDD, no one is perfect, screws will get lost. They gave me a set of the little plastic/rubber feet that went on the pre-unibody MacBook Pro/PowerBooks since my G4's had fallen off. They then promptly fell off again within a couple months, crummy design.

 

[Oyeve]

Wow, Apple even rapes you with screws.

 

[Pliablemoose]

eBay...

 

[Tyranicus]

Wow, Apple even rapes you with screws.

Apple doesn't sell the screws at all, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find a laptop manufacturer who does. iFixit sets that price. It has nothing to do with Apple. Also, shame on you for not even trying to use the obvious pun.

 

[imagoon]

Apple doesn't sell the screws at all, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find a laptop manufacturer who does. iFixit sets that price. It has nothing to do with Apple. Also, shame on you for not even trying to use the obvious pun.

Dell, HP, Asus, Toshiba, Fujitsu all sell screw kits. Last set I ordered for an HP was $12 and had about 45 screws total.

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Actually I just checked and I have ordered screw kits for the Titanium G4's also. I have since let my "apple support" lapse so no idea if they still sell them on the tech site.