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Old Apr 21st, 2009, 04:52 PM   #1
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MacBook Air proves its mettle in plane crash
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To all who said the MBA was fragile.... NOT!!!!!

MBA "takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin' ".
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... a survivor of the Turkish Airways crash in February this year, Sefer Baris, closed his Apple laptop and put it in a slipcase moments before the plane hit the tarmac.
Surprisingly, the notebook's chassis was merely bent, not broken (refer to image).
MacBook Air proves its mettle in plane crash | Crave - CNET
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Old Apr 21st, 2009, 07:18 PM   #2
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[IMG]MBA "takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin' ".
If you consider an unusable display and an uncomfortably bent out of whack top case still tickin', then sure.
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Old Apr 21st, 2009, 08:09 PM   #3
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Looks pretty bust up to me.

I've seen iPods take considerably more abuse and look better than that.
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To all who said the MBA was fragile.... NOT!!!!!

MBA "takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin' ".

MacBook Air proves its mettle in plane crash | Crave - CNET
I guess if you don't want to use the display it's in great shape.

But thanks for showing it will bend in a plane crash.
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I think the point is that it still works... not how bent it looks. I bet there's lots of HP/Acer/etc.. plastic notebooks that would have just broken in half or something. Now I love my MBA even more.
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I think the point is that it still works... not how bent it looks. I bet there's lots of HP/Acer/etc.. plastic notebooks that would have just broken in half or something. Now I love my MBA even more.
Plastic breaks.. Aluminum doesn't... gotcha.
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Old Apr 21st, 2009, 10:16 PM   #7
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To all the people giving this a "meh" this was a freakin' plane crash. You know, the same thing that causes humans to break into small pulpy pieces? Think of the force that tons of steal falling to the ground from 10s of thousands of feet in the air. The fact that this thing still exists in any form is amazing.
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Aside from the dented up case, I think I see a picture of the Virgin Mary in the display?!
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...I think I see a picture of the Virgin Mary in the display?!
Oh, here we go. Let's hope it goes to eBay!
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To all the people giving this a "meh" this was a freakin' plane crash. You know, the same thing that causes humans to break into small pulpy pieces? Think of the force that tons of steal falling to the ground from 10s of thousands of feet in the air. The fact that this thing still exists in any form is amazing.
LOL

Hard to impress people these days.
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