I have done this with coffee cups/mugs. Put it on top of my car so I can put my bag into the passenger seat. Then I just start driving. One made it over a mile with a little less coffee.
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Ran over Macbook Pro @ 55MPH...STILL WORKS!
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Thanks, Mr. Wizard!
I'm not trying to be a wiseguy, but it hit on a subject (aluminum structures) that I was involved with for some time in my life, maintaining aircraft, so I thought I'd try to shed a little light on the subject...Yeah, instead of that "I'm a pc and I'm a mac" crap.
Great story though, I'm glad you got it back still working!
Yeah it'd be really bad someone put their computer in the car first and left their kid on the roof of the car.
LOL! QFT if anyone did that, shame on you, nerddsss jk.
Nah, it could follow the traditional Mac v. PC campaign, just with a twist:
"Hello I'm a Mac, and I just survived being run over by a vehicle at highway speed. Its a good thing my components were already crippled from the factory using fritzy nVidia chips and firewire controllers before I got to my new home, otherwise I might be further disabled"
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Nah, it could follow the traditional Mac v. PC campaign, just with a twist:
"Hello I'm a Mac, and I just survived being run over by a vehicle at highway speed. Its a good thing my components were already crippled from the factory using fritzy nVidia chips and firewire controllers before I got to my new home, otherwise I might be further disabled"
lets be serious, would a plastic Dell survive a fall from a car roof at 55mph? no way.
someones going to say that happened to them now just to prove me wrong knowing this forum
I've ordered about $230 worth of replacement parts off ebay to have a go at repairing the damage to the MBP. Going to get a new display back cover/bezel, bottom case and superdrive. Should be good as new once everything is replaced (if i don't mess it up more in the process). I'm not too scared about the bottom case replacement, more frightened by the display case. Seems as if it's glued together and I don't know how it's going to go back together once I take it apart.
Everybody always claims that aluminum macs are so much stronger. In my personal experience, plastic laptops have held up better to falls. If you were to drop a MBP, it would get bent no matter from how high you drop it. If you drop a plastic laptop, nothing will happen at low heights. If you drop it from higher up, then it might crack or come apart. Plastic is much easier and less expensive to replace and it doesn't dent.
BTW, it's weird how many times this has happened before...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/76581/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/448620/
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=106845
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=477582
BTW, it's weird how many times this has happened before...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/76581/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/448620/
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=106845
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=477582
lets be serious, would a plastic Dell survive a fall from a car roof at 55mph? no way.
someones going to say that happened to them now just to prove me wrong knowing this forum
55 is pretty darn fast for something to like a laptop to survive so well
I repaired the cosmetic damage to the laptop salvaging the back cover off a broken display for sale on ebay. I also ordered a new bottom case off ebay because I really fubared the dvd slot trying to get a disc that was stuck in side the optical drive. And lastly I ordered a new 8X dvd DL drive off ebay to replace the broken one. If you saw this laptop now you'd swear it was good as new. The only thing wrong with it at this point is the F3 key is halfway broken off, but it's still attached and it still works.
So yeah, laptop resurrected to look as if nothing ever happened. Going to give it to my mother and hope she puts it to good use. (Got a new unibody to replace it because i'm too OCD to use a laptop that *MIGHT* be broken)
So yeah, laptop resurrected to look as if nothing ever happened. Going to give it to my mother and hope she puts it to good use. (Got a new unibody to replace it because i'm too OCD to use a laptop that *MIGHT* be broken)
Me too. Its a really cool story. You should actually send the entire story to apple including the repair story. They may actually have some use for it.