consumerist.com — Watch as Michael smashes his Macbook with a variety of tools starting at 1:40 in this video. He says Apple lied to him and denied his request for repair under extended warranty because of spill damage. Michael says he didn't spill anything, the Macbook just stopped working.
Jun 21, 2007 View in Crawl 4
mypapeJun 22, 2007
I THINK THIS KID SHOULD CONCENTRATE MORE ON EATING A SALAD
reyalpJun 22, 2007
@dulakian: Apparently you've never had to bust up a concrete slab with a sledgehammer. Trust me, even if you hit the afterburners on your pussy swing power, you couldn't crack the concrete.
megganlomaniacJun 24, 2007
Did The Big Lebowski come to anyone else's mind?"See what happens, Larry? Do you see what happens when you f**k a stranger in the ass? This is what happens when you f**k a stranger in the ass!"
macoafiJun 25, 2007
Yes they do. Circuits can short out or go bad. Motherboards die. Things burn. Capacitors explode or leak...all that happens. In 6 months working at a computer shop I probably saw 5 laptops come in where the circuits on the mobo just plain went. If the power circuit goes, it can't charge the battery or use the AC so it won't turn on. We'd send them to our board-level guy and he'd heat them up to something like 400 degrees to melt/re-set the metal in the circuit grooves and fix any gaps in connectivity.
macoafiJun 25, 2007
the odds of getting 3 defective units in a row is going to be astronomical^^^Where do you get that? Take a probability and statistics class. The state of one laptop does not affect the state of any other laptop. The first breaking does not make the second any less likely to do so, and the 2nd breaking likewise does not preclude the 3rd from dying as well. This is a common error in thinking, so I won't blame you, just your math teachers.
cry187Jun 27, 2007
A friend of mine did spilled water on his 4months old macbook pro (1st gen), he turned it off, took out the battery and turned the mbp upside down to drain the water. He also took out the keyboard and started wiping it off. Next day he sent his unit to apple told them what happened and apple replaced his logic board free of charge.If he would have been nice to the CSR and escalated his concerns I don't think this wouldn't even happen to him. If I were a computer manufacturer, I won't consider him a loss because of his attitude. Good luck to the new company in which he bought his new laptop.
reyalpJun 27, 2007
You're still a girly man.
lilbambiJul 9, 2007
Yeah! I cringed when I saw it. All I could think of was...damn, if he sold it as is on eBay, someone would have snatched it up and paid the $700 to have it fixed!
mabhatterJul 26, 2008
I think the quality of laptops is going downhill dramatically. There used to be a time major PC magazines would actually test laptops for the accidental "coffee" spill. It seems modern ones won't even take a small splash when older models used to be designed to divert a whole cup of coffee from major components.