Design changes may alleviate MacBook Pro flex issue


Apple MacBook Pro customers going back to 2016 have noticed issues with their displays. It was speculated the cause was flexible display cable that over timed caused problems. iFixIt notes Apple may have addressed the issue with recent design changes. As noted b MacRumors forum poster, the display cable is slightly longer. At just 2mm longer, the modified part may help alleviate the cause of the problem.

iFixit:

"This is significant because it gives the backlight cable more room to wrap around the board and not come into contact with the board as the laptop is opened past 90 degrees," said Taylor Dixon, teardown engineer at iFixit. Presumably, this contact is what led to the wear, tear, and eventual failure of the cableâ€"though the exact cause of the failure is tough to pin down. "Since we have yet to experience the problem for ourselves, it’s hard to say for sure how much of the problem is the cable being in close proximity to the board and how much of it is the length of the cable," said Dixon. "The longer cable definitely gives more room to breathe around the board, but it’s still in such close contact with the board that it’s impossible to tell whether it’s rubbing on the board at any point." In other words: this could solve the problem, or it could just delay the cable’s inevitable failure a bit longer.