MacBook Pro takes bullet like a champ
By Jeannie Choe 
posted February 26th 2007 4:23PM
posted February 26th 2007 4:23PM
[Via Random Findings]
posted February 26th 2007 4:23PM
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I smell a new Mac vs. PC ad!
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Why no mention that it took that boy's eye out too?
YO Maybe we should all carry Mac books on our chest just incase...... LOL HAHAHAHAHAH
Seriously. i bet the new mac vs pc will be......
(Mac is a heavyly armed and protected solider)
(Pc iz a typical high school nerd.)
then a narrater says ..........
" Who would you trust to save ur life?"
Then a picture of mac book comes on.
LOL HAHAHAHAH........
That post may have been funny if you wouldn't gloat in your humor
Hey don't you think that the battery took the bullet... And this time it didn't burst into flames .... maybe we are seeing the apple battery test here...
Steve in the next keynote:
"Our Macbook Pros can even withstand being shot with a bullet... Boom, boom."
Well all the bullet would have hit would be the battery compartment which actually looks to be fairly well shielded from bullets, not that I think Apple included that in their initial engineering of the MacBook Pro.
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/87/images_large/03.jpg
the linked article points to a flickr picture that has been removed. Odd?
The touchpad, as shown in the RandomFindings picture, is all kinds of jacked up.
and why was this person taking a Mac to a shootout? Or was he being shot at BECAUSE he had a Mac?
Ok, so? I bet my Sony Vaio laptop can take a bullet just as well. It's not that surprising. For all we know, that bullet was probaly a real softy, or that MBP was a little to clunky for size.
Nope.
I'd believe a MBP to be bulletproof. I dropped mine while it was on and everything from about four to five feet off the ground, it put a little dent in the corner and a screw popped out, but it still works perfectly. These babys are tough.
Lol this reminds me of those f@nb0ys comics with "I AM PS3! I CAN DEFLECT BULLETS"
What the hell kind of blog does this link to? You guys actually read crap like that? This was on the front page of Digg yesterday, maybe that's where this article is from.
huh, and in the Random Findings blog, the image detailing what happened to the touchpad has the optical drive to the left... whereas the one showing the pirate kid has it to the right?
I'm so confused.
In the Random Findings post the other pic is of the underside... that's why it may have looked reversed at first glimpse.
Dude, the picture of the warped surface is the battery, not the touchpad. Look at the pic with the screen showing, and look at how the bottom of the MacBook warps down. They flipped it over for the second pic.
I have a friend that back over his powerbook in a 1.5 ton truck, and the power book was absolutely fine. but at the same time he backed over his dell and the dell was completely destroyed.
Bullshit. You don't run over a PowerBook, at least in its current form, and have it turn out "fine". At minimum the screen would be cracked. At minimum.
My 12" AlBook fell out of the back seat of a car and tumbled to the pavement. When I say "fell out"... I mean, FELL OUT... and hit the pavement HARD.
Other than a dented corner of the shell and slightly bent frame, the thing is still working flawlessly today. I was able to bend the frame back with gently pressure, though it does wobble ever so slightly. Most importantly, the screen didn't take any damage.
They are tougher than they look.
BULLSHIT!!! POWERBOOKS AND MBP CAN GET DENTS AND DINGS WHEN YOU BUMP THEM LIGHTLY AGAINST A FREAKIN' TABLE.
um ya, most laptops will get dinged if you tap them LIGHTLY in big capital letters...on the other hand, if you tap them lightly, they won't ding. If it's a really hard table, that might make a difference and if it has happened to you, you must have been quite violent with it. btw, it still worked after you "dinged" it didn't it?
Yeah, this kind of stuff happen very often here...
That why i keep my ipod inside my heart-side pocket, but just at home 'coz someone can stole it outside, youknow...
sure, i'll take a bullet. but not in the chest.
Well, i hate to point this out, but some of the batteries Apple uses are sony, i mean they are one of the largest rechargable LI-ION battery producers.
But if anything it looks like apple took some precautions in macbook design after the exploding batteries and re-inforced the battery case.
My ibook is built like a tank, i have knocked it off my bed numerous times, the only damage it's sustanded is a busted USB port from the wireless mouse dongle getting bent the wrong way on the impact. and one time it fell on something that scratched the touchpad, but it still works.
on a funny note, my hard drive went corrupt once... but that was before i ever dropped it.
where can i get that picture on the macbook tahts on the screensaver... help me out!?
John Doe: I've a friend whose MacBook got run over by a car. No damage, just some track marks on the outside.
alexcusack, does your friend *normally* accidentally place a laptop behind each tire while moving his truck?
It still functions because it's a mac. There's nothing inside for the bullet to destroy...
Actually, the Macbook could probably take a bullet and then some because it has a polycarbonite shell, which can take a pretty good beating. To put it in perspective, the nalgene bottles that are used to hold water are made of the same material and they are pretty impact resistant. However, this doesn't mean you can treat your Macbook/iBook the same as you treat your water bottle!
Someone is a cruddy shot. The Crapbook deserved it though.
Do you reckon "I'm gonna pop a cap in yer latch!" will become all the rage amongst PC ganstas?
枪手的枪真准啊，居然从侧面射进去了。
m.......警察巡邏時，可以背一台喔！