Post your damaged Mac!

[_bnkr612]

this could be fun.

ouch.

http://www.themacgroup.ca/graphics/broken_pb.jpg

[virividox]

i take good care of my macs :) all of them including the mac my dad had in 1985 are still running!!!

[_bnkr612]

it would just be interesting to see some nasty Macs.

[homerjward]

what on earth happened to that thing? :eek: :eek:

[Phat_Pat]

I once pile drived a G3 Green iMac from the top of a pickup. Than took a baseball bat to it with my friends

Those gasses make you woozy....


The thing was broken, believe me it was trash before we got ahold of it.

[_bnkr612]

i think it went to a 5th grader...

[cr2sh]

Ding! My 17" Powerbook... which I'm currently trying to sell!

[iGary]

From the infamous Macintrash thread found in Wasteland:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/justmark/IMG_2630.jpg

[wdlove]

Very interesting pictures, thanks for posting.

I also take good care of my Mac's. They only have the imperfections of production and slight wear and tear.

[840quadra]

Everything from my 512k to my G5 are in great condition.

I wouldn't ever think of doing harm to them.. I am such a sappy person :(

[dornoforpyros]

Although I don't have any trashed mac's around I really should take a pic of the computer graveyard me and my roomie have started. We both seem to have an affinity for picking up garbage computers/monitors/cases etc in hopes of getting a cheap PC going. We had 2 pentium II's running for a while but they both kinda bit the dust. So I've got about 2-3 open cases and variose IDE cables and drives sitting around me.

[toezter]

not mine, dont know how it happend, just don't want it to happen to me *knock on wood*

http://www.cowboyneal.org/ex-powerbook.jpg

[thecow]

I'll post a picture of my decapitated, functional PowerBook when my digital camera gets back from Las Vegas. It stowed away with my grandmother.

[sjpetry]

Some of us like to take care of our belongings.


homerjward nice avatar. :)

[mariahlullaby]

From the infamous Macintrash thread found in Wasteland:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/justmark/IMG_2630.jpg

Funny...that's what we call our school :p :p

[ChrisBrightwell]

I dropped my 12" Powerbook, which fell four feet and landed square on its corner. All it did was press in the corner of the case and buckle two small places in the bottom shell. All of the hardware survived, passed all the hardware tests, and functioned perfectly.

I've heard similar stories, as well as one lady baking her Powerbook in the oven and one guy running over his with a Toyota SUV. They all survived.

A friend of mine dropped his iBook similar to the situation where I dropped my Powerbook, but his outcome was a bit different -- the plastic on the corner shattered.

That's not to say that the PB is stronger than the iB -- just that your mileage may vary. The real idea is to keep stuff like laptops as far away from the edge of your desk as possible.

http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20754

http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20755

http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20756

http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20757

[Balin64]

:(

I have had one of my Macs tragically perish: My PB 140 was hit by a damn leaking radiator heater: nothing was hit, and I mean nothing, but the PB: everything was as dry as Texas.

I still have it...

[ant_s]

This post couldn't have come at a better time for me. I just dropped my 15" PowerBook last week and it did rather a lot of damage:

· Buckled/dented lower-left chassis corner
· Buckled and cracked plastic ring on palm rest
· Buckled palm rest on front-left corner
· Dent above PCMCIA slot
· Buckled/skewed and dented screen hinge (causes screen to close at an angle)
· Buckled screen surround
· Dent in battery
· Broken catch prevents screen from latching with main unit
· Dark areas on screen which were not apparent previously

When it gets back from the insurers I'll post photos that I took on my mobile phone, but didn't have time to transfer over bluetooth before sending it away.

It's rather upsetting seeing your beloved computer all smashed up!

[CaptainCaveMann]

this could be fun.

ouch.

http://www.themacgroup.ca/graphics/broken_pb.jpgHaha that reminds me of the whole printer scene in Office Space.
:D

[Macmaniac]

this could be fun.

ouch.

http://www.themacgroup.ca/graphics/broken_pb.jpg
I actually know where that came from, DriveSavers uses the image as an advertisement for computers that they have pulled data from. The image u posted is of a powerbook that was run over by a bus at a MacWorld Expo long ago.

[Macmaniac]

More Victims: Guess what happened to them!
iMacs on fire?
PB in the Amazon?

[SodaPopMonster]

heh- I need to dig out the pictures of my iBook that got run over(i am typing this on it right now...)

[CoMpX]

I don't have any damaged Macs, but I liked this thread so much that i thought I would bump it to the top. :)

[doucy2]

my cube was in a zillion pieces then i put it back together
maby that why it doesnt work

i also had a ti book and a 800mhz g3 ibook the we both completly taken apart

[bursty]

Kills me everytime I look at it. Dropped my cell phone onto it from about 10-12 inches. :mad:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7281/smalldsc004772zp.jpg

[p0intblank]

bursty.... ouch!!!!! :( It would kill me just knowing that dent is there. That sucks, dude. :(

[ryannel2003]

I opened the case of my eMac in late July and when you take the rear case off, you have to disconnect the power button cable. Well to make a long story short, when I put the case back on I mis-matched the pins and it resulted in a power button that hangs a little bit off the case and if you can see it from this crappy picture it is being held up by a piece of scotch tape. :( :eek: :mad:

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3971/img13751rg.th.jpg (http://img229.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img13751rg.jpg)

[Daveway]

Remember Alex from TSS taking a bat to Kevin Rose's G4 Powermac? That was painful to watch.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=90060
Surprisingly Alex has since purchased a DP 2Ghz PM.:p :)

[xPismo]

Remember the faulty powerbook batteries?

http://www.danaquarium.com/galleryalbums/macoddities/pbfire3.jpg

Taken from: http://www.danaquarium.com/gallery/macoddities

[w_parietti22]

Remember the faulty powerbook batteries?

http://www.danaquarium.com/galleryalbums/macoddities/pbfire3.jpg

Taken from: http://www.danaquarium.com/gallery/macoddities

:eek: :eek: :eek:

*covers eyes, peaks, freaks out, cries*

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

edit- My iBook fell off my bed... not a dent, scratch or anything... luckly the screen was down... otherwise... well you know what would've happened.

[840quadra]

Remember the faulty powerbook batteries?



wow!

That is sad, and scary at the same time!, I hope people didn't get hurt by those!

I am going to have to keep an eye out for problems with my ibook!

[risc]

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3796/img10594rp.jpg

I damaged them both by installing Linux! All fixed now!

[bursty]

Whats damaged in that pic?

[rickvanr]

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3796/img10594rp.jpg

I damaged them both by installing Linux! All fixed now!

I'm waiting for someone to throw up a picture just like that but with windows loading.

[840quadra]

:confused: This got strange!

;)

[iBlue]

these pictures are traumatizing my macs! i mean that faulty battery picture, oy vey... my powerbook was in eye shot of that! :eek: poor things. :D

[Labster]

poor macs :(

[puckhead193]

my powerbook was dented over the superdrive when i got it back from repair.... But i sent it back and replaced basicly everything on it:D

[w_parietti22]

I have to stop looking at this thread... its making me depressed :(

[maestro55]

<snip>

I damaged them both by installing Linux! All fixed now!

What is wrong with linux? Not OS X, but it couldn't be that bad for your system :)

Linux user since 2003 :)

[brap]

d'oh.

[reberto]

d'oh.
AHHHH!!!!!!!! *covers eyes and puts iSkin on keyboard*

[risc]

What is wrong with linux? Not OS X, but it couldn't be that bad for your system :)

Linux user since 2003 :)

I used Linux as my primary OS from 1994 to 2003, and as good as Linux is on x86 it is no where as good on PPC. On my Power Mac G5 X11 ran like it was on a 486, mmm no acceleration. On the PowerBook most of the hardware didn't work. So what is wrong with Linux? It is a POS on non-x86 hardware imo.

edit: I should add for general desktop use.

[LimeiBook86]

Don't you notice that most of the damage pics are from PowerBooks? :p

Well here's mine... the damn screw came loose! It was fixed but, is still a bit loose. Later I'll take pictures of the dent by my 56k modem, and on the front right of the trackpad...and on the back rear speaker....damn this aluminum is vulnerable :rolleyes:

[mad jew]

Don't you notice that most of the damage pics are from PowerBooks? :p


I've always wondered if that was due to the PowerBooks being fragile or the PowerBook user being rougher on their machines than the regular user - the whole pro-laptop user thing...

My iBook has proved to be reasonably sturdy over the years. :)

[LimeiBook86]

My iBook has proved to be reasonably sturdy over the years. :)
I had my Clamshell iBook and it has no damage at all (Well maybe because that thing is a tank!), yet my aluminum PowerBook has a bunch of little nicks and scrapes...I guess transitioning from a big rubber laptop to a sleek metal one is a hard transition...old habits die hard! :eek:

I swear I'll keep the intel one nice and safe :D

[joepunk]

I have several little scratches from I don't know what. On the bottom there are some skid marks. Don't know how those got there. And I will try to find my thread showing the nasty dent under the Ethernet port. Got a really small one underneath the DVI port.

Edit: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=107055

[livingfortoday]

This was what finally killed the 'Skybook' - an attempt to build a backlit keyboard. The picture's kinda bad, but the iBook is actually booting up there, with the two LED's on that board lighting up, powered by the LCD power from the iBook.

Later on, when my friend would solder it all in, though, after all the time spent setting up the fiberoptic wires and the LED's... he would put in the wrong resistor. Frying the LED's and the logic board within seconds.

Man. I never wanna hear anyone say "Is it supposed to be smoking like that?" about any of my computers.

Oh, and you can see what it looked like before its demise in the second picture, bottom left. Gotta love those G3 iBooks.

[Kyle Nerder]

Check out this one. I almost bought it off eBay. Some other sucker wanted it more then me though! A week later I bought a cheaper one in much better shape.

CRUNCH!!!

[kwajo.com]

:eek: that G5 makes me shudder! my poor baby! *grabs G5 and holds it in protective grasp*

I should post some pics of my clamshell, it's got broken plastic on the hinge, luckily the hinge itself is metal and is fine, but the plastic is now sticking out the rear. plus someone marked on it with a blue pen and I can't for the life of me get it off! :mad:

[MattG]

Check out this one. I almost bought it off eBay. Some other sucker wanted it more then me though! A week later I bought a cheaper one in much better shape.

CRUNCH!!!

Damn...that thing had to have been dropped HARD. :eek:

[Daedalus256]

I dropped my 15" Pbook froma bout 5 feet onto concrete sidewalk. My bag strap snapped and the corner hit. Because of that it has a nice dent on the corner, I had to have the apple store pry the metal away a little so I could get the AC Adapter in, and there's a small crack on the LCD. Screw you sidewalks :(

Also, last week, I had my pbook in my bag and my bag fell and hit a leg of a computer chair, there is now a small dent on the lid.

I also had a close call last week I took my Sawtooth and my Pbook home. I had my sawtooth on the backseat. and my bag with the keyboard/mouse, adapters, etc etc in it. The bag also had my pbook. I braked REALLY hard and felt a hard push on the back of my seat. Oh crap. The Sawtooth hit the back of the seat, knocked over the bag with my pbook in it, that fell on te ground and then the sawtooth landed on top of the bag. Miraculously NOTHING was hurt at all in this incident. My pbook has no new scratches dents or anything and the sawtooth went home and booted like a champ. :)

[Xephian]

Damn...that thing had to have been dropped HARD. :eek:
Yeah, the Power Mac's are pretty strong.

[CoMpX]

I once had this old Mac, I forgot which kind, and I accidentally dropped a screwdriver in the case while it was running. It his the hard drive and ZAP! The whole thing was fried. Whatever, I bought the thing off of eBay for $35. I then smashed it out in the street with my friend.:eek: :eek: I know, I know, I was then a Mac basher. But i was ignorant! Now I know. :D

[xPismo]

d'oh.

I can't believe you left it there to take a picture! Sadly, I did the same, but with coffee (w/ milk) on my 15" FW800 Alu Powerbook. . . the seam near the superdrive sucked up most of it before I could find a towel...

Its still working (knock on wood) but really not looking forward to taking it apart to see the damage. I got coke in my Pismo the first month of owning it too... so maybe its a initiation thing?

:(

[maz94protege]

I'm waiting for someone to throw up a picture just like that but with windows loading.

Give me a few hrs, just got virtual pc 7 haha

[yg17]

The only thing abnormal about my PowerBook is the top row of keys is crooked and my w key is funky. But that's why it's being sent out tomorrow for a new keyboard :cool: My PowerMac has been through many moves and has had a bed slammed into it many times (it's between my bed and desk, the bed moves easily. One slight move and it's touching my G5) and no damage either.

Some of these pics make me want to cry :(

[Greenone]

I dropped my 15" Pbook froma bout 5 feet onto concrete sidewalk. My bag strap snapped and the corner hit. Because of that it has a nice dent on the corner, I had to have the apple store pry the metal away a little so I could get the AC Adapter in, and there's a small crack on the LCD. Screw you sidewalks :(

Also, last week, I had my pbook in my bag and my bag fell and hit a leg of a computer chair, there is now a small dent on the lid.

I also had a close call last week I took my Sawtooth and my Pbook home. I had my sawtooth on the backseat. and my bag with the keyboard/mouse, adapters, etc etc in it. The bag also had my pbook. I braked REALLY hard and felt a hard push on the back of my seat. Oh crap. The Sawtooth hit the back of the seat, knocked over the bag with my pbook in it, that fell on te ground and then the sawtooth landed on top of the bag. Miraculously NOTHING was hurt at all in this incident. My pbook has no new scratches dents or anything and the sawtooth went home and booted like a champ. :)

Time for a new bag!!!!

[Greenone]

I just posted somewhere else about dropping my PB today, before finding this thread. I was only about 2.5 feet away from it. It was sitting precariously (I admit :( ) near the corner of my 2-foot-high ottoman, on a lap desk opened at an angle (the lap desk - not the PB; the PB was closed in sleep mode...I thought the gripping rubber on the lap desk was holding it well enough - stupid stupid), and I literally watched it do a complete flip onto the hardwood floor, dinging the corner then landing flat on its lid. The good news is you'd have to look closely to see the damage, cause the front right corner got tarnished and there's a slight dent (in the shap of a xmas tree or triangle) but you can only see the dent from a certain angle. Is it good that it landed on the lid instead of the base? Also, the latch still works, and when I opened it, my hotmail was still minimized and I'm typing on it now. I do occasionally hear some slight clicking/processing-type sounds though, when I don't think it should be. Do you think my NEW PB will survive this? I'm afraid of turning it off cause - like sleeping after a head injury - I worry it won't come back on again!

[CoMpX]

The one on top was in a flood. It makes me sad. :( Its like looking at the Titanic. The second one is just a poor, poor PowerBook. :( :( /Users/Joe/Desktop/water_damaged_macintosh.jpg/Users/Joe/Desktop/powerbook.1.gif

[reberto]

The one on top was in a flood. It makes me sad. :( Its like looking at the Titanic. The second one is just a poor, poor PowerBook. :( :( /Users/Joe/Desktop/water_damaged_macintosh.jpg/Users/Joe/Desktop/powerbook.1.gif
photo?

[CoMpX]

photo?

Oh yea, my bad. I don't know what happened there, sorry. I just looked in Google Images and typed "damaged mac." It was one of the first results.

[CoMpX]

Oh yea, my bad. I don't know what happened there, sorry. I just looked in Google Images and typed "damaged mac." It was one of the first results.

Here, I think I got it to work... this is pretty gruesome: :eek: :D

[barneygumble]

Not damaged, but i threw a perfectly good Performa 7200CD in the trash, felt good to, piece of *****:eek:

[2nyRiggz]

Here, I think I got it to work... this is pretty gruesome: :eek: :D

dude how did u pull that off:eek: u must be careful


Bless

[joepunk]

Here, I think I got it to work... this is pretty gruesome: :eek: :D
Oh My God! :eek:

That poor PB.

*runs off to comfort PB*
*starts whispering "nothing like that will ever happen to you"*

[livingfortoday]

I was doing a search for high-res Powerbook photos, and I stumbled upon this... kinda big, so it's just a link.

http://cowboyneal.org/ex-powerbook.jpg

I hugged my Powerbook after seeing that.

[Phat_Pat]

I was doing a search for high-res Powerbook photos, and I stumbled upon this... kinda big, so it's just a link.

http://cowboyneal.org/ex-powerbook.jpg

I hugged my Powerbook after seeing that.
haha that is awesome

[randas]

I was doing a search for high-res Powerbook photos, and I stumbled upon this... kinda big, so it's just a link.

http://cowboyneal.org/ex-powerbook.jpg

I hugged my Powerbook after seeing that.

Whoever did that was freeking stupid.

[LimeiBook86]

Not damaged, but i threw a perfectly good Performa 7200CD in the trash, felt good to, piece of *****:eek:
Hey!....I'm trying to sell one of those! :p hahaha

Some of these images are bad, you shouldn't treat your Mac like that *cries* haha

[Johnny Rico]

You can't really tell in this photo, but I managed to **** this imac up pretty bad getting the case off and the lights in. I did something to the crt that made it all wobbly and separated the red from the blue. Got kind of hard to look at. Looks cool in the dark though!

[Marky_Mark]

plus someone marked on it with a blue pen and I can't for the life of me get it off! :mad:

Use hairspray directly on the marker pen mark and rub it off while the spray is still wet. Then wonder what the stuff does to women's hair if it can shift indelible ink!