I actually registered just for this post! 
Been reading here for a looong time but now I thought I'd finally get into discussions and what better thing than to immediately show that accidents happen to everyone.
Right here it goes.
This is a brand spanking new Unibody Macbook Pro, with 2.8ghz 4GB ram and 320GB 7200RPM harddrive.
The day of the accident 1.1.2009! What a way to start the year. I was walking with the laptop closed (sleeping) through my parents in laws house and it slipped out of my fingers. Hit the stone tiles form a height of about 90cm spot onto one corner and completely dented it. The pictures are in at the bottom of this post and sorry for the quality, taken with an iPhone.
Now, after the initial 1.5sec shock I picked it up and hear the super drive make funny noises. Please note the laptop had opened and was running.
I opened it and saw that the screen was ok and my desktop came up.
So after initial check this was the damage:
Bent corner (screen and body), Superdrive didnt take any discs and kept making funny screeching noises, top part of the laptop (the whole screen top) was 1mm off meaning it didn't line up with the bottom
So I snatched a phillips screwdriver, took the bottom off and took the superdrive out, rechecked that physically everything was ok and attached the drive again, put the battery in, turned the laptop on and the drive functioned normally. I put the top cover back on, took the top part and carefully pushed it , now it lines up again with the bottom. Next I took a pair of pliers, put come cotton on either side and bent the aluminium corner of the screen back into place. not its only slightly bent (but you can clearly see it.)
The body itself I will try to fix at home with some hammering and trying to get the dent out.
Overall the laptop survived this accident miraculously well considering I have seen an old macbook pro fall from that height and completely shatter. In this case I have to say, Sh*tty start for the year but thank got for unibody aluminum this is sturdy as hell.
well back to relaxing on the first of January.
Happy new year to everyone btw.
//FlosseR out
Been reading here for a looong time but now I thought I'd finally get into discussions and what better thing than to immediately show that accidents happen to everyone.Right here it goes.
This is a brand spanking new Unibody Macbook Pro, with 2.8ghz 4GB ram and 320GB 7200RPM harddrive.
The day of the accident 1.1.2009! What a way to start the year. I was walking with the laptop closed (sleeping) through my parents in laws house and it slipped out of my fingers. Hit the stone tiles form a height of about 90cm spot onto one corner and completely dented it. The pictures are in at the bottom of this post and sorry for the quality, taken with an iPhone.
Now, after the initial 1.5sec shock I picked it up and hear the super drive make funny noises. Please note the laptop had opened and was running.
I opened it and saw that the screen was ok and my desktop came up.
So after initial check this was the damage:
Bent corner (screen and body), Superdrive didnt take any discs and kept making funny screeching noises, top part of the laptop (the whole screen top) was 1mm off meaning it didn't line up with the bottom
So I snatched a phillips screwdriver, took the bottom off and took the superdrive out, rechecked that physically everything was ok and attached the drive again, put the battery in, turned the laptop on and the drive functioned normally. I put the top cover back on, took the top part and carefully pushed it , now it lines up again with the bottom. Next I took a pair of pliers, put come cotton on either side and bent the aluminium corner of the screen back into place. not its only slightly bent (but you can clearly see it.)
The body itself I will try to fix at home with some hammering and trying to get the dent out.
Overall the laptop survived this accident miraculously well considering I have seen an old macbook pro fall from that height and completely shatter. In this case I have to say, Sh*tty start for the year but thank got for unibody aluminum this is sturdy as hell.
well back to relaxing on the first of January.
Happy new year to everyone btw.
//FlosseR out
