13 inch MacBook Pro Non-Retina and Retina with Cracked Screens and 11 and 13 inch MacBook Air LCD Replacements
This cracked screen above looks pretty bad, with the horizontal and vertical colored lines and "shatter" image covering most of the screen. This type of cracking is common when the computer is closed on a small object like headphones. But we say this Mac was lucky, because the glass panel on the front of the display is totally intact. You might notice that there is a plastic case on this laptop. Yep, screens can be damaged even if the laptop has a case! For these Non-Retina models, the glass and LCD screen are separate parts. This 13 inch MacBook Pro A1278 was able to be repaired in under 24 hours for under $200. The newer Retina version 13 inch MacBook Pro has a thinner bezel around the LCD panel in the display, and doesn't have the silver "MacBook Pro" branding at the bottom of the screen. Another easy way to tell the Retina models apart from the older unibody MacBook Pros is to look for the DVD slot on the side of the computer. The newer models do not h...