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Comment by dabernathy89 | Hacker News Reader

This is the one that destroyed the screen on my 16" MBP. 0.023 inches thick.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C24NBGL/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_T...

It's quite similar to the one I've been using on my 2018 15" MBP for the past two years. Can you give more information on the cause of the problem? Did you close the macbook very firmly and it broke?

I also used one on a 15" MBP (albeit 2015 model) for a long time with no trouble. I don't recall closing the lid particularly hard when it broke, though I may have.

That’s about half a mm. what the hell happens to Apple laptops if you get a coin trapped in there

When did Apple start building such fragile devices?

Is that a common thing for you, having a coin closed in your laptop? :)

Throw laptop in bag which has small things like coins, pen lids, etc

They indicated “no thicker than a sheet of paper” and that’s far thicker than a sheet of paper, and incompressible too.

This is new guidance, which I'm glad they issued. These kinds of covers worked on previous MBP models with no trouble, though.

The small leather adhesive dot I use on mine is extremely compressed and dented by the case, and that’s a 2017 MBP, so I’m kind of shocked people are using hard plastic ones at all.

Using something as hard as a metal for a screen cover like this seems to be asking for trouble?

It's explicitly advertised for that purpose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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