Apple blogger and Mac repair guy Josh Carr relates a heart-warming story of cars, broken computers and utter laziness, all of which culminate in a happy ending.
A customer brought a rather bashed up 13” black MacBook in for repair and when Josh asked what had happened, the customer admitted he’d driven over it. Yes, he drove over his own computer. More on that in a second.
Amazingly, despite a thorough crushing, the MacBook worked just fine, although it needed a new display and optical drive. A few bucks and a couple of hours later and the MacBook was as good as new and the customer very happy.
Which brings us back to the manner of the poor computer’s compression. Just how do you drive over your own laptop? Step one: put it on the floor next to the wheel. Step two: forget about it while doing something else. Step three: Decide to drive the car to your own mailbox which is “just down the road”. And here we see the problem. Everybody gets distracted, and maybe leaves something where they shouldn’t. But most people, I’d like to believe, could perhaps walk the short distance to their mailbox.
MacBook Car-nage: Surviving a drive-over [TUAW]
Photos: Josh Carr/TUAW
