Dropped My MBP Today

[CaptainChunk]

That sucks... but it could have been a lot worse.

At least it's a unibody. They're a TON more rigid than the old multi-piece aluminum designs.

My 2008 MBP (old design) took a similar fall a couple years ago and the screen bezel split apart at one of the corners. And there's no way to fix it outside of replacing the inner and outer bezel parts (not exactly cheap).

 

[ayeying]

Doesn't seem that badly damaged. If youre not bothered, I'd probably say leave it alone

 

[Delighted]

It is booting pretty slow this morning. Thought I would try the AHT, but that didn't work. I boot, hold down D, and it takes me to my desktop. WTF. 10.7.3 BTW.

Besides noticing the 'slow boot' have you noticed any other performance differences?

 

[lgwells1]

Other than not being able to revert a partition, only thing happening are slow boots. I watched a few youtube videos, and my comp boots slower than those online. I then booted my fiancees 07 Black MB 2.2 2GBRAM against my new MBP. It whooped my comps butt. I was able to boot, and download CCC from online before my MBP was fully booted.

I just wiped the hard drive and reloaded everything using Carbon Copy Cloner. Still boots like crap. I will replace the HDD tomorrow with the one of my Carbon Copy on it.

 

[lgwells1]

I shot a quick video of the boot time. Sorry about the sound, but you can see how much of a turd it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W-PmcjC4Q8

 

[ekwipt]

 

[adnbek]

Since the long delay is before the Apple boot logo appears, I would check in system preferences under "Startup disk" that your OS is properly selected. Maybe deleting and repartitioning means it no longer knows the default OS?

Doesn't seem to be an HDD problem if it boots slow with a different one.

The amount of time it took to boot after the Apple logo appears is pretty good so my first bet would be to check what I said above. You can boot in verbose mode (command + v) to see what may be happening between the time the EFI is loaded and the OS starts to load.

 

[magamo]

That sucks... I also dropped my MBP real hard, and now the lid is misaligned so there's about a quarter inch of gap between the lid and keyboard when closed. I used to get freaked out when any small error popped up after a while too. It seems mine is working perfectly though.