I chucked my Laptop out the window!

[AlexSpark]

Before I switched to my PowerMac I ran a windows laptop. Ive kept it around for a year now and have used it extremely rarely. During its history all it has ever done is piss me off.. anyone ever felt the same about a computer??

Well today out of boredom I decided to put it to its grave for good ... from an upstairs window!! Not just once .. but four times ... i guess it was built quite well after all lol!

I jumped on it a few times and gave it a few kicks too ..... here is the aftermath:

http://azure.sparkart.net/~alex/laptopMurder/killed_laptop_1.jpg

http://azure.sparkart.net/~alex/laptopMurder/killed_laptop_2.jpg

http://azure.sparkart.net/~alex/laptopMurder/killed_laptop_3.jpg


It would make a great Apple switch ad hehe


:D

[mkrishnan]

Ummm...erm....ahem...*tries to think of something appropriate with which he can respond*

Thank you for following the proposed computer disaster rules? :eek: ;) :o

[XIII]

Wheee....! :D

Wow, someone who actually did it.. :)

Couldn't you have gotten more by selling it on ebay..? What were the specs?

[applemacdude]

are u sure u didnt leave it on the balcony?

[PlaceofDis]

i did the something similar with an old car stereo. darn thing only gave me a headache. but once it was out and i had a new unit i took a bat too the thing in an alley. that was fun and it got a lot of stress and general aggravations out

[AlexSpark]

Wheee....! :D

Wow, someone who actually did it.. :)

Couldn't you have gotten more by selling it on ebay..? What were the specs?


It was a PII 1Ghz ... is wasnt in high enough condition to sell.

[killuminati]

It was a PII 1Ghz ... is wasnt in high enough condition to sell.

You'd be surprised. I sold an old Compaq Presario 350 mhz laptop for almost $300 on ebay!

[Josh]

LOL!

Dude that is awesome :eek:

*high five*

[masterapple04]

Now if only doing that to stubborn Windows users was not illegal in this and most countries... I can only imagine what kind of choas that would cause in areas where there are a lot of MR members. Oh the fun it would be... :cool:

(As a side, I do not condone actually throwing Windows users out of second-story, um, windows... This post is in honor of a particular friend of mine :D )

[tech4all]

Well at least you followed the "rules" about posting pics :D But if it were me I would have found some better use for it. You said it was acting up on you a lot, but perhaps it could do something. I dunno, just seems like a waste of computer....even it had Windows on it (but that's just me).

Heh, you threw Windows out the window :p

[AlBDamned]

Well at least you followed the "rules" about posting pics :D But if it were me I would have found some better use for it. You said it was acting up on you a lot, but perhaps it could do something. I dunno, just seems like a waste of computer....even it had Windows on it (but that's just me).

Heh, you threw Windows out the window :p


C'mon, regardless of the cash, this is a fantastic thing to do. Why sell it and pass the misery on. This is kind of a no-impact 'pay it forward' type thing...

[Omen88]

I once did that to my tamagochi chicken. But I guess that's not quite as impressive :)

[PlaceofDis]

I once did that to my tamagochi chicken. But I guess that's not quite as impressive :)

i would guess that you wouldn't be able to just let it 'fall' though and that you would actually have to throw that to do some damage to it, but its all in good fun too! :D

reminds me of Limp Bizkits song Break Stuff (possibly the only good song that has ever come out of that horrid horrid group)

[plinden]

Well at least you followed the "rules" about posting pics :D But if it were me I would have found some better use for it. You said it was acting up on you a lot, but perhaps it could do something. I dunno, just seems like a waste of computer....even it had Windows on it (but that's just me).


I agree - I revitalized a 350MHz PII laptop (at least one BSOD per day, back light failing, broken floppy - reinstalling Win95 didn't do any good) by putting Linux on it. It was rock solid afterwards ... showing it wasn't the hardware that was at fault (or it was, but for some reason Windows couldn't handle whatever issues it had but Linux could)

[EGT]

Sweet :D

You should have taken a video.

[iDM]

I once ran a stop sign post through an old cabinet TV and I once through a massage chair off a balcony, but their have been many times i've wanted to harm past PC's

[zelmo]

C'mon, regardless of the cash, this is a fantastic thing to do. Why sell it and pass the misery on. This is kind of a no-impact 'pay it forward' type thing...

Seems pretty high impact to me. ;) :D

[jessica.]

You'd be surprised. I sold an old Compaq Presario 350 mhz laptop for almost $300 on ebay!

I got 475 for mine and the battery was crap.

[Demon Hunter]

Any old school Mac users remember the MacAddict PC destruction movies? Basically this, only they filmed it and did much worse than a window. They ran them over in cars... took crowbars to 'em... *sigh, nostalgia*

"Hey look, it's a PC!!! AAHHHH!"

[Phat_Pat]

i took a bat to a green G3 iMac

...it was broken....:rolleyes:

**gets ready to duck and run**

[Lacero]

It was a PII 1Ghz ... is wasnt in high enough condition to sell.LOL. I still have a Pentium I 150Mhz desktop PC. I would give anything to own a 1GHz Pentium2 laptop. LOL. :D

[PlaceofDis]

i took a bat to a green G3 iMac

...it was broken....:rolleyes:

**gets ready to duck and run**

nothing wrong with that. useless equipment is useless, sure you probably could have done some scavenging of parts, but where is the fun in that?

[dmw007]

Way to go AlexSpark!!! :D

Now if only all windblows users would destroy their PeeCees. :rolleyes:

[dmw007]

i took a bat to a green G3 iMac

...it was broken....:rolleyes:

**gets ready to duck and run**

:eek: I don't know if I could bring myself to destroy/damage any Apple product- even if it no longer works.

Now the Dell Dimension 8200 that I used to own.........

[zflauaus]

Nice one!
Kinda of on the topic of destruction: Anybody ever split a CD in half so you can touch the shiny, reflective stuff of it? Throw it against a concrete wall a couple times. Get a whole bunch of Windows install CDs from eBay and you have entertainment for the whole day! :D :D

[ravenvii]

LOL. I still have a Pentium I 150Mhz desktop PC. I would give anything to own a 1GHz Pentium2 laptop. LOL. :D


Yeah, that'd be cool... except that Pentium II's never existed at 1 GHz.

[quackattack]

Must have been fun!

Reminds me of a scene from Office Space... ;)

[iBlue]

i thought the exact same thing quackattack! :D

i was reading through here to see if anyone had said it first :p

but no one brought up the visual reminder of one of my favorite scenes in a movie ever:

http://www.ess.msu.edu/display/images/officeSpacePrinter.jpg

hahahaaa!

it's nice to take a bit of anger out on frustrating inanimate objects

[puckhead193]

i took a bat to a green G3 iMac

...it was broken....:rolleyes:

**gets ready to duck and run**

you should have made it into a fish tank ;)

[quackattack]

i thought the exact same thing quackattack! :D

Of course! ;)

Great movie. Thanks for the picture! It brought it all back, LOL. :D

[Phat_Pat]

you should have made it into a fish tank ;)
the thing went up in smoke... literally.

it overheated and smoke came out of the vents. Everything was fried.....

it was my friends, who got it for free, and i think the pervious owner tampered with it....

those fumes in there make you dizzy...

[Counterfit]

Nice one!
Kinda of on the topic of destruction: Anybody ever split a CD in half so you can touch the shiny, reflective stuff of it? Throw it against a concrete wall a couple times. Get a whole bunch of Windows install CDs from eBay and you have entertainment for the whole day! :D :D I split a toasted DVD-R in half with a razor blade once, that was cool. For some reason, I think it would be fun to self-pitch an iPod and crank it with a baseball bat. Heck, just paint some red seams on it!

[Mechcozmo]

LOL. I still have a Pentium I 150Mhz desktop PC. I would give anything to own a 1GHz Pentium2 laptop. LOL. :D

I have one of those sitting on my desk. The processor I mean. Great paperweight. :D

Yeah, that'd be cool... except that Pentium II's never existed at 1 GHz.

PIIIs did... maybe he is talking about one of those? PIIIs are great computers, far better than the P4 clock for clock. PMs are based off of the PIII core.

[gammamonk]

This is a great thread. Back in college I used a 2.5gig Quantum Bigfoot harddrive in my linux router box. Simply because I got it free, and I didn't have money to burn. Anyone who worked in PC repair in the last 5 years has probably seen these. They're terrible. HP and Compaq both used them.

Anyway, when I replace the drive finally, I defenestrated it like nobody's business. It took remarkable pain from the second story onto concrete. So my friend and I dropped a huge brick on it over and over (from the balcony) until it was in chunks. That was so fun.

Keep it up!

[dmw007]

Must have been fun!

Reminds me of a scene from Office Space... ;)

I loved that part of the movie- re-played it a few times :D

PS- as a side note, I loved how all of the computers in the office were Macs!!!

[dmw007]

This is a great thread.


PeeCees destroyed by their fed up owners- whats not to love?! :)


It took remarkable pain from the second story onto concrete. So my friend and I dropped a huge brick on it over and over (from the balcony) until it was in chunks. That was so fun.


Thats great gammamonk! :D

[Chundles]

I split a toasted DVD-R in half with a razor blade once, that was cool. For some reason, I think it would be fun to self-pitch an iPod and crank it with a baseball bat. Heck, just paint some red seams on it!

Try cooking a CD in a microwave for 2 or 3 seconds, it awesome, crackles up like a spiderweb.

[dubbz]

Nice one!
Kinda of on the topic of destruction: Anybody ever split a CD in half so you can touch the shiny, reflective stuff of it? Throw it against a concrete wall a couple times. Get a whole bunch of Windows install CDs from eBay and you have entertainment for the whole day! :D :D

Never done that. I did try once to se if a CD whould catch on fire, using a lighter... well, it didn't, but it did melt in an interesting way.

Put the axe to a modem once. Hacked it into little pieces and buried it. It had caused me nothing but grief. Grrr... I want to smash something just thinking about that hellish thing :mad:

As for the original post: Although it was painful for a moment to see the pictures, I can understand it. No need to pass on all the grief to someone else. That'd just be cruel. :p

[Shaun.P]

What a complete and utter waste.

There are companies set up which you can donate you computer to, which will clean and restore computers and send them to Africa.

Or better yet, someone you know who could have really done with a computer but never had the money to buy one.

[tech4all]

C'mon, regardless of the cash, this is a fantastic thing to do. Why sell it and pass the misery on. This is kind of a no-impact 'pay it forward' type thing...

I wouldn't call it a fantastic thing to do. As said the laptop could have been used for something. Now it's just a pile of metal that is pretty much useless now. I don't know much about it, but I'm sure he could have put Linux on it or something. Or at the very least, he could have used it for spare parts instead of just destroying it. I think it's nice to have a computer to fiddle around with. Remember, one man's garbage is another man's treasure (course that would fit better when the laptop was still somewhat useful).

That's just my opinion on it. Don't want to get that deep into it ;)

[Mechcozmo]

Anyway, when I replace the drive finally, I defenestrated it like nobody's business.

That word isn't in Tiger's dictionary! Gah!

What a complete and utter waste.

There are companies set up which you can donate you computer to, which will clean and restore computers and send them to Africa.

Or better yet, someone you know who could have really done with a computer but never had the money to buy one.

This is true, but if the computer was finky... you don't want to give it to someone in a 3rd-World country. Would just be worse for them since they can't fix it.

[sambo.]

Before I switched to my PowerMac I ran a windows laptop. Ive kept it around for a year now and have used it extremely rarely. During its history all it has ever done is piss me off.. anyone ever felt the same about a computer??

Well today out of boredom I decided to put it to its grave for good ... from an upstairs window!! Not just once .. but four times ... i guess it was built quite well after all lol!

I jumped on it a few times and gave it a few kicks too ..... here is the aftermath:

http://azure.sparkart.net/~alex/laptopMurder/killed_laptop_1.jpg

http://azure.sparkart.net/~alex/laptopMurder/killed_laptop_2.jpg

http://azure.sparkart.net/~alex/laptopMurder/killed_laptop_3.jpg


It would make a great Apple switch ad hehe


:D

bravo
well done sir
spanking effort
should be taught in schools, wot?

[generationxwing]

What a complete and utter waste.

There are companies set up which you can donate you computer to, which will clean and restore computers and send them to Africa.

Or better yet, someone you know who could have really done with a computer but never had the money to buy one.
Lighten up buddy...people ARE allowed to have fun. If you feel so strongly against fun, go donate your computer...

[Shaun.P]

I'm not saying people aren't allowed to have fun. And I won't donate my computer as I take care of it and use it everyday.

What I'm saying is, that you have a machine which could have went to much better use than a pile of circuits on the ground so you get some perverse, destructive pleasure out of it.

[generationxwing]

What I'm saying is, that you have a machine which could have went to much better use than a pile of circuits on the ground so you get some perverse, destructive pleasure out of it.
You clearly have never felt the perverse, destructive pleasure that comes from throwing a piece of technology that has pissed you off to no end for years off a roof and watching it smashing on the pavement below. Oh baby, I loves it.

I'll be back in 5 minutes.

[Shaun.P]

Lol. I don't mean to sound horrible or anything. I'm just one of those people that don't like thing to go to waste.

[jdechko]

quack and iBlue, that's the first thing I thought of when the OP said he stomped on it...haha

[Hemingray]

nothing wrong with that. useless equipment is useless, sure you probably could have done some scavenging of parts, but where is the fun in that?

Amen. In fact, I've got two dead Mac Pluses that are going with me on my next trip out to the desert for a little target practice.

Yes, I hate to put 'em down, but better to go out with a bang, right? :D

[dmw007]

Yes, I hate to put 'em down, but better to go out with a bang, right? :D

Indeed, that is the best way to go out. :D

[greatdevourer]

He took it down, but a friend of mine has a video of him attacking an old PC with a garden fork :p

[dmw007]

He took it down, but a friend of mine has a video of him attacking an old PC with a garden fork :p

Darn, that would have made for some great viewing! :D