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Durable iBook, my ass.

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ravuya:
My girlfriend's 3-month-old iBook took a downer of one foot onto a lushly carpeted floor. The ethernet port died on impact, it seems. We've tried a number of different solutions, and nothing is working. It looks like that little iBook is heading right to a service department.  :mad:

rtgwbmsr:
Did you lose data? Did the screen break?

I dropped my IBM from a table to a (as you would put it) "plushly carpeted" floor. Screen gone. HDD + Data gone. Ethernet? Hell, the thing didn't turn on!

I dropped my PowerBook G3 from a table to a industrial carpeted floor, and it's dandy.

Sounds like a board came loose.  The odds of something going wrong are low. You were just on the wrong side of the odds  :D  

Shit happens.

voidmain:
I've dropped my Dell Latitude several times, I believe I am on my 3rd LinkSys PCMCIA ethernet adapter. Seems to always land right on that son of a bitch!

ravuya:
Data (at least the important stuff) is fine. Screen's fine. The magnesium-mount saved everything but the port, it appears. You'd still think that the iBook would take more pains to protect its lifeline to the real world (after all, it does have the i in the name).

It could be worse.

rtgwbmsr:
I got caught in the rain with that laptop later on, after I got it fixed...last time I ever carried one around without a case.

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: The_Muffin_Man/B0b ]

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