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i take good care of my macs 
all of them including the mac my dad had in 1985 are still running!!!
all of them including the mac my dad had in 1985 are still running!!!
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.
Those gasses make you woozy....
The thing was broken, believe me it was trash before we got ahold of it.
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
I wouldn't ever think of doing harm to them.. I am such a sappy person
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.
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
http://www.cowboyneal.org/ex-powerbook.jpg
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.
iGary said:From the infamous Macintrash thread found in Wasteland:
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Funny...that's what we call our school
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.
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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.
This thread makes me sad
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...
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...
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!
· 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!
Haha that reminds me of the whole printer scene in Office Space._bnkr612 said:this could be fun.
ouch.
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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._bnkr612 said:this could be fun.
ouch.
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heh- I need to dig out the pictures of my iBook that got run over(i am typing this on it right now...)
I don't have any damaged Macs, but I liked this thread so much that i thought I would bump it to the top.
