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Apple files patent for notebook guard system

macnn.com — Apple Files Patent Relating to a Guard System for a Notebook’s Disk Drive Slot.

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  • Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Apple files patent for some niche item

    3 hours later: 800 diggs
  • doctorcaligari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This will probably be great if you have kids (Look, Daddy! It takes baseball cards!) or old people around (I finally got that floppy to fit in there!)
  • SuperSunny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Really good for them because my MacBook's Disk Drive is damaged and it won't eject disks
  • Sonic84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4if it keeps customers from getting minidisks stuck in 'em i'll be happy.
  • robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6clarification::

    Apple files patent for a DOOR to the disk drive.

    3 hours later: 800 diggs
  • clickmyface, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have never got anything inside my slot loading tibook, albook, or macbook. The door better function completely automatically otherwise that's just poor design.
  • node3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3From the patent: "Unquestionably, portable computers are subjected to a host of insults."

    I don't think a patent is going to stop flag from trolling Apple stories.
  • zeptobyte, on 10/12/2007, -4/+617 hours later: 60 diggs
  • ike368, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i found a quarter in there once... still works, though
  • mangee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The www.absolute.com with a "Service Unavailable" message up - or the one with no www at http://absolute.com ;)

    http://no-www.org/
  • Stealer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2from the article:
    "Foreign objects of this sort that have been found in portable computers include paper clips, SHOW TICKETS, business cards, toothpicks, guitar picks, chewing gum wrappers, and so forth."

    i think i´m going to open my macbook, who knows ? maybe i can find some u2 tickets ....
  • boson3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2In other news, Microsoft squeezes more DRM into Vista... the RIAA are still greedy... and even more useless patents filed.
  • floam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Submitter Doesn't Know How Capitalization Works.
  • grnerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I thought it was going to be some kind of Lo-Jack system for laptops like http://www.absolute.com/

  • ttkgeek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I think that's a great idea.
  • monergism, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Fanboys are grasping at straws.
  • datcrazydj, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Good for them.
  • SonicRush, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Why the hell is this on the front page?
    Oh yeah... it has Apple in the title.

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