I also filed the corners off my MacBook

wolvoleo

Yeah the sharp edges have bothered me since they started with the unibody. Luckily I'm completely off Mac these days. But really the last mac I enjoyed using was my powerbook. It had really nice plastic gaskets for the edges, a keyboard with really good travel and cupped keys, it was wonderful. I got a plastic MacBook eventually which I filed down too because the edges were really sharp there. And plastic is easy to file. Also replaced the screen with a matte version, on the plastic MacBook that was also easy because the screens were readily available and there was no glass overlay. Then I had a unibody MBP 15" matte. Less sharp and with off factory matte display. Not great keyboard though. The current MBP I find abhorrent. Even after they switched from the horrible butterfly mistake the travel is still way too shallow. I just can't work with that anymore. These days I just don't buy laptops anymore. Only desk PCs.

zaptrem

This is my number one complaint about the M-series MBP line. Especially true of the cutout in the middle that has points so sharp they can cut you if you accidentally scrape it with your hand.

BenFranklin100

Get one of these: https://www.andar.com/products/the-helm?variant=397924980491... Pricey, but the lip covers the edge. My current one is 4 years old and lasted a couple of generations of Macbooks.

Neywiny

Good to see a recognition that power tools are powerful. Too many amateur videos of people experimenting without nearly enough control and messing up projects

JSR_FDED

Brave to do this on a blue color MacBook - curious how the filed area will look compared to the rest of the body after some time.

gnabgib

Related: Filing the corners off my MacBooks (1406 points, 3mos ago, 678 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352

baldeagle

https://a.co/d/0hXtPRfC Amazon link to a debuting tool. It uses sharp harder metal to cut off sharp metal edges.