Comments on: MacBook Pro 13″ gets dropped at 195mph… but wait it still boots!

By: camerique

camerique — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:48:26 +0000

Now those sharp edges are even sharper.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:16:28 +0000

The MV Agusta F4 R 312 can go 194 mph

By: bluegenre

bluegenre — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:54:28 +0000

that macbook despite the damages still looks beautiful. ugh! why does it have to be so expensive.

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:45:36 +0000

I dropped my Dell XPS 15 (weighs a bit, not light) 1 meter and a half on my stone driveway. Heavy scratches on the aluminum lid and small chips out of the rear rubber/plastic port but boots up fine, not all PC’s are made equal.

By: ratbum

ratbum — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:49:52 +0000

I wish my Powerbook G4 were as resilient as that.

By: betsy

betsy — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:26:12 +0000

I believe it’s ‘You’ not ‘Your’ : )

By: catfood

catfood — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:50:15 +0000

your not you’re, derp

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:18:09 +0000

Your could use Steve’s comma in place of you’re question mark and make your “and” lower case as sentences dont begin with the word and.

By: qwerty

qwerty — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:35:37 +0000

just shows… mac is better than pc!

(yeah i know, mac is pc… NOT THE POINT!)

By: lol

lol — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:29:31 +0000

lol im not paying money for the durability of the shell. dude i know to take care of my laptop. im dj and i play with laptop (with traktor pro scratch) and i been traveling in 2 years in many cities of my country + berlin, italy (bologna), bulgaria, sicily etc. i never installed the os on it and i never got an error . it works perfect.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:57:55 +0000

Only a stupid arsehole would ride at those speeds with a backpack affecting aerodynamics etc. The damage to the Mac is what might be expected, I’m not sure the rider would have rebooted if HE (I never met a female biker that stupid) had impacted with the ground at that speed. I hope it was on a track. I used to be involved in Advanced and Novice bike training and rode with some of the police training guys who joined our setup to help reduce the rising numbers of serious 2 wheeled accidents in our area. Even though they were the best riders I ever went out with, one of them smashed up at a similar speed on a race track day and was hospitalised for 7 months with very serious injuries.

The backpack etc suggest the Macbook came a cropper on a public highway.

Joey Dunlop, probably one of the world’s finest ever road racers was killed on a 125cc, leading a race in Tallyn in 2000, having already won the races for bigger and faster bikes, so our friend with the Macbook should think carefully about his speeds

Food for thought.

By: iPad flies off a car at 70 mph, survives! - OS X Daily

iPad flies off a car at 70 mph, survives! - OS X Daily — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:06:12 +0000

[...] to make your gadgets survive some pretty disastrous situations. This iPad faired better than the MacBook Pro that fell off the back of a high speed motorcycle, but that also fell out of it’s case at 195mph, and yet, somehow it still [...]

By: Bull Crap

Bull Crap — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:37:20 +0000

I don’t believe this at all.
The case has very little to do with how well the internal components do. In fact, the internal components are under so much stress due to the aluminum unibody, that logically speaking, it shouldn’t still be working under its own power.
As far as dropping a plastic notebook, it depends wholly on the brand. An Acer would not survive something like this, that’s a given. Acer’s are BUDGET notebooks, hence why you’re paying considerably less. A Lenovo, however, is a different story. I would put my money on a Lenovo any day against a MacBook Pro. Aluminum is a shotty material unless it’s aircraft grade.
Which it’s not, so all you Apple fanboys can stop trying to justify paying ridiculous prices on your shotty computers.

By: MacBook Pro’s still work after a 195mph crash | Used Mac

MacBook Pro’s still work after a 195mph crash | Used Mac — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:36:29 +0000

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By: daniel

daniel — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:15:26 +0000

a serious question…
so my mac dropped from about 7 feet and hit hard enough to fracture the screen and tweak the case. i checked the hard drive and the information can still be pulled off without problem, so i just bought an external monitor and the mac makes the mac sound when booting, but goes to the setup screen (the one of the galaxy with stars in the background). i can move the mouse around, but there is none of my normal icons are there, and the computer is not doing anything. Any thoughts? thanks. feel free to email directly at daniel.metcalf@yahoo.com