My MacBook can do STUNTS!!!!!

[bluedoggiant]

Well, so this is my family macbook, its a brand new 2.2ghz 2gb, 120gb, whitebook. i take it to school, since, well, i cant take my 24" imac:p.

so under the tables, there is a metal rim, and while i was using it on my lap, the macbook just got attracted to the metal rim!!! and god damn the magnets in the macbooks lid are VERY powerful, it caught it from very far, and i even had trouble to take the macbook off the rim of the table!! it was pretty cool, so i took a picture of it hanging from the table, check pix below:

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/bluedoggiant/DSC00383.jpg
(yeah, i know, looks like torture)

in my lap:
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/bluedoggiant/DSC00384.jpg

sorry crappy pix, quick cell pix

[LightDemon69]

That is amazing!

[TEG]

Cool man. I'm amazed that the magnets would be that powerful.

TEG

[bluedoggiant]

Cool man. I'm amazed that the magnets would be that powerful.

TEG

I'm surprised the HD holds up, I saw an HD basically screw up in front of me before, a guy put an extremely powerful magnet right on the HD in the macbook (not mine, his), i rushed in like 3 seconds, and took it off, it was too late, he had to reinstall tiger (at the time, now he has leopard).

[roisin and mac]

Gah, are you trying to give me nightmares here?! :D

Seriously though, this looks really cool, and in the first picture especially, it looks as though it's flying or something :)

It's impressive how strong the magnets are though; I have recently come to realize that you can put your Remote on the edge of your MB screen (got that by browsing the pics in one of the what's-your-setup threads here, in fact! and at first before I got a closer look I thought all the wee white rectangles were a post-it or something, heh. You learn some great stuff here). I was really impressed when I tried it, because the lid of the laptop practically leapt at the Remote! I was like, It's Alive!

Fun!

[bluedoggiant]

Gah, are you trying to give me nightmares here?! :D

Seriously though, this looks really cool, and in the first picture especially, it looks as though it's flying or something :)

It's impressive how strong the magnets are though; I have recently come to realize that you can put your Remote on the edge of your MB screen (got that by browsing the pics in one of the what's-your-setup threads here, in fact! and at first before I got a closer look I thought all the wee white rectangles were a post-it or something, heh. You learn some great stuff here). I was really impressed when I tried it, because the lid of the laptop practically leapt at the Remote! I was like, It's Alive!

Fun!

lmao, yeah, first pic is really cool, second pic is to show you what it was like when i was sitting, it scared the **** out of me in class (took the pics after), all of a sudden, the macbook kept hitting the table, then i knew, but now scratches dents or anything strangely.

[killmoms]

I can hear the judge reading the sentence now...

"MacBook, in light of your crimes, you have been sentenced by a jury of your peers to be hanged by the screen until dead."

[dukebound85]

why do i feel that is fake. magnets are strong enough to hold up 5 pounds but its pretty easy for me to open the lid on mine. plus see as the hd is pretty close it would cause damage.


in short i dont believe it lol

[bluedoggiant]

why do i feel that is fake. magnets are strong enough to hold up 5 pounds but its pretty easy for me to open the lid on mine. plus see as the hd is pretty close it would cause damage.


in short i dont believe it lol

As I've said, and its not fake my friend, you're just going to have to believe me, thats a ******* pic i took off my phone, and it is true, maybe the ledges on the macbook that is sticking out is helping, but those look worth less to help it stay attached, but in all, I didn't photoshop it or anything, for the record, I don't have photoshop:cool:[yet].

[IC3D]

lmao that's the hottest **** evarrrrrrr

[TEG]

I can hear the judge reading the sentence now...

"MacBook, in light of your crimes, you have been sentenced by a jury of your peers to be hanged by the screen until dead."

Genius!!!

TEG

[ItTakesII]

hahah Wow that is awesome! I would get a strong cable with some like piece of metal or something attached to the bottom then place it hanging over something and take a picture in which you can't see the cable and so the Macbook would really look as if it is levitating in midair XD

[ezekielrage_99]

That is cool :cool:

[iDAG]

It looks sweet but the thought of a MacBook hanging in mid air is a very bad thought to have. What if it just fell? :eek:

[bluedoggiant]

I think I'm gonna bring in my real camera and take a good pic on monday! it would be much more pleasing to the eyes.

[TheStu]

why do i feel that is fake. magnets are strong enough to hold up 5 pounds but its pretty easy for me to open the lid on mine. plus see as the hd is pretty close it would cause damage.


in short i dont believe it lol

You do know that hard drives have freaking powerful magnets in them right? And it takes a massive amount of gauss to cause a hard drive to erase... more than the neodymium magnets that Apple uses can put out at least.

And, as an aside, if you want to really freak someone out... get a thin magnet that can fit in the kensington lock slot of the macbook. Put it in there, BOOM, macbook goes to sleep.

[bluedoggiant]

You do know that hard drives have freaking powerful magnets in them right? And it takes a massive amount of gauss to cause a hard drive to erase... more than the neodymium magnets that Apple uses can put out at least.

And, as an aside, if you want to really freak someone out... get a thin magnet that can fit in the kensington lock slot of the macbook. Put it in there, BOOM, macbook goes to sleep.

dont see how

but i have mentioned earlier what happened to my friends macbook.

[dpaanlka]

The display hinges aren't designed to hold up the weight of the greater laptop. This is why manuals usually say "do not carry by the display" or something to that extent.

I probably would, like, stop doing that if I were you.

[bluedoggiant]

The display hinges aren't designed to hold up the weight of the greater laptop. This is why manuals usually say "do not carry by the display" or something to that extent.

I probably would, like, stop doing that if I were you.

well i stopped, my friend holds his macbook like that, he treats it like *****, you can cry from it, im not joking.

[TheStu]

dont see how Run a paperclip up and down the left side of your MacBook screen, it will get caught about 2/3s of the way up from the bottom. There is a magnet there that corresponds with a switch in the palmrest, this is what triggers the sleep mode.

but i have mentioned earlier what happened to my friends macbook. You did, but I don't know if that was data erasing, or corruption due to the magnet being there as the drive was writing/reading.

The hanging macbook just makes me think of all the terrible things that I have done to my macbook. The best part? Still running like a champ... it has been dropped, thrown, swung around, flipped 2.5' and landed upside down, beaten, had things thrown at it (my friend did it without realizing... still wondering how it failed to notice the big white laptop on his green couch), water has sprayed all over it, scratched, and basically used constantly for the past 1.5 years. I only shut it down when I absolutely need to, and always have things running... best computer I think I have ever owned.

[ItTakesII]

well i stopped, my friend holds his macbook like that, he treats it like *****, you can cry from it, im not joking.
:eek:

He tortures :apple:s!! He must be a PC fan under cover ...

[acfusion29]

PEOPLE!! It's HDD, not HD.

HDD is hard drive
HD is high definition

now learn the right acronym before you use it
(sorry this really bothers me, people keep saying HD when they mean HDD, but they just don't know the proper term. And don't say its the same thing, cause really..... it's not.)

[Tallest Skil]

PEOPLE!! It's HDD, not HD.

HDD is hard drive
HD is high definition

now learn the right acronym before you use it
(sorry this really bothers me, people keep saying HD when they mean HDD, but they just don't know the proper term. And don't say its the same thing, cause really..... it's not.)


Yeah, sorry, no one says hard disk drive in real life. High-Definition anything hasn't permeated into our lives enough yet to necessitate a difference.

So keep magnets away from your HDs, kids.

[scotty56]

Impressive, but did it really happen? ;)

[bluedoggiant]

Yeah, sorry, no one says hard disk drive in real life. High-Definition anything hasn't permeated into our lives enough yet to necessitate a difference.

So keep magnets away from your HDs, kids.

Take it from someone whose seen...it happen.

Impressive, but did it really happen? ;)

Yes, it was bothering me in class, it took me like 5 minutes to realize it was the magnets:p

[MacGeekDC]

***** thats cool I notice my 2.4 BlackBook sticking to my magnet board sometimes

[dpaanlka]

PEOPLE!! It's HDD, not HD.

HDD is hard drive
HD is high definition

now learn the right acronym before you use it
(sorry this really bothers me, people keep saying HD when they mean HDD, but they just don't know the proper term. And don't say its the same thing, cause really..... it's not.)


Apple seems to disagree...

106724

Macintosh High Definition?

[acfusion29]

Apple seems to disagree...

106724

Macintosh High Definition?

You probably renamed it. I don't remember mine saying that, and I would remember since it does bother me.

Wikipedia:

A hard disk drive (HDD), commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk or fixed disk drive

Early HDDs had removable media; however, an HDD today is typically a sealed unit (except for a filtered vent hole to equalize air pressure) with fixed media.[2]
A HDD is a rigid-disk drive, although it is probably never referred to as such. By way of comparison, a so-called "floppy" drive (more formally, a diskette drive) has a disc that is flexible. Originally, the term "hard" was temporary slang, substituting "hard" for "rigid", before these drives had an established and universally-agreed-upon name. Some time ago, IBM's internal company term for an HDD was "file".
HDDs (introduced in 1956 as data storage for an IBM accounting computer[3]) were originally developed for use with computers, see History of hard disk drives.
In the 21st century, applications for HDDs have expanded beyond computers to include digital video recorders, digital audio players, personal digital assistants, digital cameras and video game consoles. In 2005 the first mobile phones to include HDDs were introduced by Samsung and Nokia.[4] The need for large-scale, reliable storage, independent of a particular device, led to the introduction of configurations such as RAID arrays, network attached storage (NAS) systems and storage area network (SAN) systems that provide efficient and reliable access to large volumes of data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harddrive

High-definition (HD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_definition

[Mackan]

Well, if the magnets are that strong, no wonder that the casing cracks... :rolleyes:

[dpaanlka]

You probably renamed it. I don't remember mine saying that, and I would remember since it does bother me.

Almost every Macintosh ever shipped (and possibly every Macintosh ever shipped) with an internal hard drive has had it's hard drive named Macintosh HD by default.

Just to make sure you're fully aware that you're wrong, here is a direct link to a Leopard screen shot from Apple's web site:

http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery02_20071016.jpg

Take note of what the hard drive is named in that Finder window.

Here are a few more:

http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery01_20071016.jpg

http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery06_20071016.jpg

Here it is in Mac OS 7.6:

http://main.system7today.com/images/helpcentershots/gaugepro.jpg

You should also learn not to take Wikipedia's definitions quite so literally.

Here is a web site named after it:

http://www.macintoshhd.org/

More fun just googling around for additional ways to show you're wrong:

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/start/pctomac/machd.html

http://www.cubeowner.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10563

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89580

Here's all 186,000 results for "Macintosh HD"

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Macintosh+HD%22&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&start=0&sa=N

In conclusion, please devote your energy to something more important, like people spelling MAC in uppercase letters, or capitalizing the I in names like Iwork, Itunes, and Ilife, or doing really dumb things like MacIntosh I-Book. And yes, you just got pwned.

[scotty56]

Says Macintosh HD on mine as well. Been that way since day one.

[bluedoggiant]

Says Macintosh HD on mine as well. Been that way since day one.

You could change it.

[dpaanlka]

You could change it.

Some people like the default name. It's one of the few remaining connections to Macs of old days.

[scotty56]

You could change it.

I could..meh, I like it simple :cool:

[notjustjay]

And yes, you just got pwned.

Ouch.

Yeah, "Macintosh HD" is how it's been since Macintosh's had HD's. :)

[bluedoggiant]

Some people like the default name. It's one of the few remaining connections to Macs of old days.

And that's why I keep it that way :p even though i was born in 1993, i wasn't around that long:D.

[ItTakesII]

And yes, you just got pwned.
lol Wow seriously. Though you did chastise him about 'wasting his time proving people wrong' about this kind of stuff yet you just spent quite a nice amount of time on that post to prove him that HE is wrong about the same thing o_O


Anyway, yeah this got pretty off topic.

[happydude]

that's an amazing pic . . . pretty sure i'm not going to try it with my wife's MB though . . . :D

[iMpathetic]

Well, so this is my family macbook, its a brand new 2.2ghz 2gb, 120gb, whitebook. i take it to school, since, well, i cant take my 24" imac:p.

so under the tables, there is a metal rim, and while i was using it on my lap, the macbook just got attracted to the metal rim!!! and god damn the magnets in the macbooks lid are VERY powerful, it caught it from very far, and i even had trouble to take the macbook off the rim of the table!! it was pretty cool, so i took a picture of it hanging from the table, check pix below:

sorry crappy pix, quick cell pix

Dude! I am so totally doing that when I get over to Dad's today!


Perfect position for using while on a beanbag chair! How sturdy is it when attached? Does it wobble a lot?

[dpaanlka]

spent quite a nice amount of time on that post

Since its such a common (and very true) thing, it didn't take me any real time or effort at all.

www.apple.com and www.google.com were all I needed.

[bluedoggiant]

Dude! I am so totally doing that when I get over to Dad's today!


Perfect position for using while on a beanbag chair! How sturdy is it when attached? Does it wobble a lot?

I do not recommend it, but its possible, try typing and it will fall.

[youradhere4222]

Almost every Macintosh ever shipped (and possibly every Macintosh ever shipped) with an internal hard drive has had it's hard drive named Macintosh HD by default.

Just to make sure you're fully aware that you're wrong, here is a direct link to a Leopard screen shot from Apple's web site:

http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery02_20071016.jpg

Take note of what the hard drive is named in that Finder window.

Here are a few more:

http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery01_20071016.jpg

http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery06_20071016.jpg

Here it is in Mac OS 7.6:

http://main.system7today.com/images/helpcentershots/gaugepro.jpg

You should also learn not to take Wikipedia's definitions quite so literally.

Here is a web site named after it:

http://www.macintoshhd.org/

More fun just googling around for additional ways to show you're wrong:

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/start/pctomac/machd.html

http://www.cubeowner.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10563

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89580

Here's all 186,000 results for "Macintosh HD"

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Macintosh+HD%22&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&start=0&sa=N

In conclusion, please devote your energy to something more important, like people spelling MAC in uppercase letters, or capitalizing the I in names like Iwork, Itunes, and Ilife, or doing really dumb things like MacIntosh I-Book. And yes, you just got pwned.

I tip my cap to you.

[iMpathetic]

I do not recommend it, but its possible, try typing and it will fall.

Well, I'll hold it first, just to see how strong it is. Then we'll move on to the gnarly hang time :D

[bluedoggiant]

Well, I'll hold it first, just to see how strong it is. Then we'll move on to the gnarly hang time :D

ok, just to let you know, they table i did it on had a ledge in the metal, I think some of part in helping it hang was the fact that the ledges that stick out of the macbook carried it.

[iMpathetic]

ok, just to let you know, they table i did it on had a ledge in the metal, I think some of part in helping it hang was the fact that the ledges that stick out of the macbook carried it.

Well, my table is exactly like that, like a carbon copy of it, so I'm all set. :cool:

[bluedoggiant]

Well, my table is exactly like that, like a carbon copy of it, so I'm all set. :cool:

Be careful. lol.

[iMpathetic]

Be careful. lol.

You obviously haven't seen my iPod, good sir. "Careful" is one of the terms strangely absent from my vocabulary, among "stop that" and "do your homework".

[dpaanlka]

Somebody is going to damage their laptop.

[iMpathetic]

Somebody is going to damage their laptop.

Sheesh, no I'm not.:rolleyes: I'm not a complete idiot; I know when to stop.

[acfusion29]

I'm still new to Macs, I got one in November, and so I didn't know Apple does this. I've been using PCs all my life, and building them, fixing, etc and the tech-y PC people have always referred harddrives to HDDs. All my computer teachers have done this, and when I corrected people on other PC forums, people agreed with me. So I guess it's a PC thing to say HDD, and Apple wanted to be different from everyone so they decided their way of saying it would be HD.

But I still think it should be HDD cause its the high definition era, and it just causes confusion to some.

You can say we're both right then, thanks for your pictures.

[Mackan]

Has anyone wondered if these strong magnets (their magnetic field) are healthy to have right under your hands? Personally, I feel a little concerned.

[bluedoggiant]

Has anyone wondered if these strong magnets (their magnetic field) are healthy to have right under your hands? Personally, I feel a little concerned.

Why wouldn't it be healthy? because of the iron in your blood?

[iMpathetic]

Why wouldn't it be healthy? because of the iron in your blood?

Or if you had metal plates in your leg from a broken bone, or a pacemaker.... Glad I gave that some thought, and twice as glad I don't need to worry about either of them.

[Mackan]

Why wouldn't it be healthy? because of the iron in your blood?

Magnetic/electric fields always have a potential to cause disturbances. Some people are more sensitive than others.

Personally, I wouldn't mind the good old "mechanic" latch.

[chaoticbear]

Magnetic/electric fields always have a potential to cause disturbances. Some people are more sensitive than others.

Personally, I wouldn't mind the good old "mechanic" latch.

That's not as sexy and magical!

[TheStu]

That's not as sexy and magical!

And it almost always breaks somehow, plus doesn't close as well.