Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Creaky MacBook Air? Tighten some loose screws?but there?s a catch

An OS X Daily contributor reports that his/her 11” MacBook Air has been creaking a lot lately when picked up, and the noise, which has gradually increased, has been traced to loose screws. The obvious solution is to simply tighten the screws, but Apple has made that customarily simple task difficult by its employment of screws with non-standard heads, the dreaded “pentalobe,” which defeats your average household screwdriver from working either to tighten or loosen the fasteners. Consequently, if you want to perform tasks from screw-tightening maintenance to warranty-voiding case opening, you’ll need to buy a Pentalobe screwdriver, available from…

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