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Do you make it a habit of closing the lid before carrying your MacBook Pro Retina?

TRUE STORY.

I had a friend named Eric. Cool and happy white boy. I'm not black, he was just very very white.

So Eric and I get finished tracking guitar for an acoustic project we were working on. We head to his mom's house, forgot why.

Eric liked to carry his Macbook around with the lid open. This was back when the black Macbook with 2.4ghz was the laptop to have.

As SOON as he opened the door to his mom's house, he dropped it and the whole damn thing came in half. Damn it was one of the saddest but funniest thing's I've ever seen in my life. Wether from laughing so hard, or feeling so sorry given the look on his face, I was crying. I'm not sure if I laughed at his face and cried about the laptop, or laughed at what happened to the laptop and cried about his face.

I know these are aluminum, but the hinges are cheap. I lifted the lid to my 2010 with something making contact behind it, and it bent the hinge and broke the plastic cover. I think it was baby wipes too. It bends easy as hell. I literally just pushed the heck out of it till it was back aligned.

From my experience, if you drop the Mac open it breaks in half, if you drop it closed, you get dents. Aside from the two recollections, there have been plenty other experiences of people dropping and those are the results, for me.

As far as you treating your PC like a football, I can't fathom your luck. I've seen PCs break like eggshells. Don't watch porn on a PC laptop. The percussion from your climax will pop the mouse and trackpad right out. I farted with one on my lap and got an error message. Momma always said PCs were a big nonoes so I thought it could smell and just became briefly incapacitated. In my adult hood, I realize that PC laptops are just cheap, and she meant "no no" as in they suck.

But anyway...
 
BoneDaddy said:
TRUE STORY.

I had a friend named Eric. Cool and happy white boy. I'm not black, he was just very very white.
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LOL. Because that's just SO relevant to your story?

The last time I actually closed a lid to transport my Macbook from one room to another is when I had a laptop with an HDD. I'd be paranoid about damaging the HDD in motion so I'd just shut everything down first. Nowadays? I walk with the lid open constantly.
 
thelookingglass said:
LOL. Because that's just SO relevant to your story?

The last time I actually closed a lid to transport my Macbook from one room to another is when I had a laptop with an HDD. I'd be paranoid about damaging the HDD in motion so I'd just shut everything down first. Nowadays? I walk with the lid open constantly.
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Hell yes it is. Anyone who has that WHITE type friend, the type of funny ass white kids you only see in college movies, knows exactly how funny this can be.
 
If moving the laptop from room to room, I carry it with the lid open.

Reason? If I close the lid, the laptop starts up again in a second or two but wireless doesn't come back for up to two minutes making Network Drives or the net inaccessible.
 
Hieveryone said:
In the past, I use to just carry it with the lid open, just like it is when sitting my desk.

But now that I no longer use a case, I'm trying to be extra cautious so I can avoid dings, dents, and scratches as much as possible.

I have a couple sleeves but honestly, I don't think I really need them.

I think as long as you close the lid, and carry it wherever you're going it should be fine.

In the car just keep it on the seat and be careful overall.

I think there are some general guidelines people should follow and this can be one of them.

The other one is never keep a glass of juice near your MBPr. Always far enough to where if it spilled, it wouldn't fall on your notebook.
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No, I don't, but I frequently don't wear seat belts, either. Both are unsafe practices. :eek:
 
Not that I don't take extremely good care of my laptops, but when moving somewhere close, I just grab the screen near the corner and shuffle the laptop around. Never been a problem....however, after hearing about the coating issues of MacBooks, when I purchase mine I'm thinking that may not be too smart.
 
Traverse said:
Why? My first computer was a $400 HP Compaq in middle school and I treated it like priceless diamond. It may have been cheap plastic, but it was MY cheap plastic. Plus, I was raised with in a home with very little money so $400 was like a $2,999 Mac Pro.
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My first computer was also a HP Compaq laptop that I got in Africa in 1995, and your right it was priceless!

BTW I still have it and it works!
 
BoneDaddy said:
I don't sell my old macs. But I treat my new retina like it's a baby. I use my old Macbook if I'm reading something while taking a doof. Yes I take my Mac with me sometimes. Sometimes it's the only quiet time I get with 3 daughters, one who'm is a baby, and a wife.

I remember last week I was holding my baby daughter while carrying my Mac to the living room. Tripped and almost fell. Whew, almost dropped the Mac, but I got lucky. I gently set it down and went back for the kid.
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I remember almost falling down the stairs at a job with my laptop in hand, no case. That would've been bad news with it open!
 
JamesMike said:
My first computer was also a HP Compaq laptop that I got in Africa in 1995, and your right it was priceless!

BTW I still have it and it works!
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The wifi in mine went out, Vista got annoying slow, and the enter key broke.

That's when I went to Macs, but I still habe it and it still boots!
 
with a thinkpad or a panasonic toughbook, you sure can treat them like footballs....thats one thing i miss from the windows world. a lot more nervous about denting/scratching the aluminium
 
Unless you're trying to be like Tim Cook or Steve Jobs demonstrating how thin or light your laptop is ("I can barely see it!" –Tim Cook, 2015, in reference to the new MacBook 12") I would never recommend carrying your laptop open (unless it's a <1m shift from one part of your desk to the other).

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rekhyt said:
Unless you're trying to be like Tim Cook or Steve Jobs demonstrating how thin or light your laptop is ("I can barely see it!" –Tim Cook, 2015, in reference to the new MacBook 12") I would never recommend carrying your laptop open (unless it's a <1m shift from one part of your desk to the other).

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See I didn't know that. Coming from a PC, which is generally pretty durable, I'm not use to babying my computer.

But it makes sense given it's 1585 vs 550 lol
 
nanogirl21 said:
I'm sure people will carry their computer whatever way they wish. Why would you have a liquid near your computer anyway? Use common sense people.
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Because your typical dude at starbucks with a mac likes to keep his overpriced latte close by.

$5 coffee. $1500 spill. That'll be $1505 thank you very much :D
 
Hieveryone said:
Because your typical dude at starbucks with a mac likes to keep his overpriced latte close by.

$5 coffee. $1500 spill. That'll be $1505 thank you very much :D
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I still find it baffling how people can sit in a cafe/restaurant with a drink on the table right next to their laptop. I would never do that. You're just asking for trouble. No matter how careful one is there is always a risk of spilling the drink over the laptop.
 
Mr.C said:
I still find it baffling how people can sit in a cafe/restaurant with a drink on the table right next to their laptop. I would never do that. You're just asking for trouble. No matter how careful one is there is always a risk of spilling the drink over the laptop.
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I put my drink can/glass on that space near the trackpad. :cool:
 
Are you typing every single second? or.. do you think I am drinking stuff every single second?
 
wksj said:
Are you typing every single second? or.. do you think I am drinking stuff every single second?
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Oh crap! My bad. I thought you wrote that. Didn't mean to diss you bro!

EDIT: I deleted my previous post.
 
If I wanted to pretend that I was a food server at a restaurant, I guess I might be inclined to try it (leaving it open, that is.) I have no desire to try that, though. One job doing that when I was 16 was more than enough for me, so you can keep that job/experience all for yourself. I won't judge.
 
I don't carry my 15" rMBP with the lid open. Unless I'm going for instance from one close room to another then yes I do leave it open but again that is only if it's on and I'm using it.

That said, you have a very strange habit.
 
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