Vermont-based blacksmith Jim Fecteau uses his 17" MacBook Pro as a business and teaching tool, and he fully intended to have it handy at a smiths' meeting in Rhode Island... however, one teensy problem, he left it on top of his truck as he drove away from home. Oops. After fruitless searching on the home end, he chalked it up as a loss.
Enter Small Dog Electronics, longtime Mac vendor in Burlington, VT. A good Samaritan turned the laptop in and SD contacted Fecteau, who came to pick up the patient. Unfortunately, the laptop had been run over by his trailer, and we all know that's gonna leave a mark. A good chunk of the screen is unusable, and the DVD drive has played its last, but the machine is still operable (!) and could be repaired to full working order. Fecteau would like to go for one of the new Santa Rosa machines, and who can blame him?
You can see several more examples of "Mac meets immovable object" physics experiments at Small Dog's 'Maccident' Flickr pool.
[via Small Dog Barkings]
Thanks Doug
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6-09-2007 @ 3:49PM
Jason said...
Man, I would like to make enough money to leave that expensive of a machine on the top of my truck and forget about it as I drove away. :P
At least it shows how tough these things can be or how anything can survive an ordeal like this given the right angles and circumstances.
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6-09-2007 @ 4:32PM
Luigi193 said...
Dang...
Yeah, small dog is real cool, its a mini apple store and has actual small dogs running through the store! Its a great (and only) alternitive to an apple store in Vermont.
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6-09-2007 @ 8:02PM
bob said...
wow... there needs to be some kind of foster care for neglected/abused computers.
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6-10-2007 @ 1:07AM
chris Stevens said...
i've said this before but I fell off my GSXR750 at 100 kph with my macbook pro 17" in a targus rucksac on my back, slid 20 meters down the road and the only damage was a slight scratch to the top of the lid and an almost imperceptible dent at the very top.
Of course, I hurt a little bit more! Macs are hard core.
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6-10-2007 @ 1:13AM
Greg G said...
What? Why didn't his Macdar go off? =P
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6-11-2007 @ 9:30AM
Jon H said...
This really isn't all that remarkable anymore.
The main logic boards are getting smaller and smaller, so they're inherently more likely to survive even if the larger, and relatively more fragile, screen and DVD are broken.
I'm sure there are people who die in car accidents whose pacemakers are still goin' strong.
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6-13-2007 @ 2:32AM
Thom Brooks said...
He needed one of these:
http://www.radtech.us/Products/MacTruck.aspx
I love it. I carry my MBP to work in it because I bike commute, even in winter. I call it my "James Bond" briefcase. It has survived a few wipe-outs on the ice along Chicago's lakefront... their advertising states that it's "tough enough to drive a truck over", and I believe it. It's made out of some pretty heavy-duty aircraft-grade aluminum. Worth every penny.
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