Background: So one day I pulled my trusty macbook out of the case and half the screen was dead. There was no visible damage to the case or the surface of the screen, just a panel that was b0rked over about 80% of its area. I thought I'd be covered by the warranty, but no luck: the friendly tech in Shibuya quoted me a repair price of about 75,000 Yen, which is more than half of what I originally paid for the whole computer. Thanks, Apple. If you find yourself in the same situation, relax: replacing an lcd is waaay easier than Apple makes it out to be ('level 2 technical repair' be damned). The real cost is about 30,000 Yen and 1 hour of your time (with tea breaks).
Disclaimer: this is meant to be informative, but if you have any doubts about it, get someone else to do it for you. It's not my fault if you break your computer!
(plastic bezel is already removed. you should turn off power, remove battery, and unplug the computer before this! 修理を始まる前に電源を取っておいて。)このページは情報だけ。読者のパソコンを担任するわけない。
What you need: 必要なこと：
a new lcd
Smart-Micro USA will sell you a 13.3" Glossy WXGA for $200
shipping to Tokyo and tax made it about $260 total for me
wire strippers
wire cutters
soldering iron and solder
some small phillips head screw drivers
magnet
plastic knife
loctite or some other non-brittle gluey stuff
heat shrink tubing
新しい液晶
Smart-Micro USA なら１３．３”液晶は＄２００
東京までの通料と税金をこめては〜＄２６０
ワイヤーカッター
ワイヤーストリッパー
プラナイフ
ドライバー（＋０、＋００）
磁石
グルー
熱収縮チューブ
Remove the plastic bezel with the putty knife. Work from the inside out.
ナイフを使って、プラのベゼルを取って。中から外まで。
Remove screws around edge of screen. Keep track of where the screws came from.
液晶の周りのねじを取って。ねじの場所は紙で書いて。
Disconnect the display cable and iSight cable. Peel them carefully off the back of the lcd.
液晶ケーブル、iSightケーブルの接続を切って、そしてゆっくり引っ張って。
Cut the power cable from the lcd. Give yourself about two inches of the old lcd power cable (pink and white or pink and yellow). I left too much. Remember, you are cutting the cable from the broken lcd. Apple designed the macbook so that you have to take apart the entire computer if you want to get to the plug. Your objective is to leave enough of the old cord to solder to, but not so much that an increase in cord length of about 2 inches will cause unsightly bulging.
液晶からのパワーコードを切って。そのコードはピンクと白あるいはピンクと黄色。切れたコードの残り部瓶は５cmぐらい。短すぎるとはんだ付けはうまくいかない、長すぎるとうまく入れない。
Position the new lcd, and cut the its power cord, again leaving about an inch or two. Check that the power cables will reached comfortably!
新しい液晶を入れてみて。パワーコードの長さは足りているなら切って。大切なのはまだつなげることが出来る。
Check that the power cable will fit. If it does, slip some heat shrink tubing on the wire. Then strip and solder pink wire to pink wire. The remaining connection was white to yellow, which made me worry, but in the end it was ok.
パワーコードはうまく入れるを調べて。大丈夫なら熱収縮チューブを置いておいて、まずはピンクのコードをはんだ付け。そしてパワーコードの残りワイヤをはんだ付け。俺の場合は残りは白と黄色だった。
Push the heat shrink tubing down over the connection and shrink it.
はんだ付けを見えないようにして、熱収縮チューブを暖めて小さくする。
Reconnect the display cable and iSight cable.
液晶ケーブル、iSightケーブルを接続して。
Check the system is working.
OK!システムをチェッキして。
Put all those screws back in and put lock tite or rubber cement on each one or they'll all fall out. It happened to a friend of mine.
ねじをグルーに入れて、組み立てして。
Replace the bezel and you're done.
ベゼルを入れて、終了。
