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Baked Apple
Aaron Steele writes "Okay, I work at an Apple Authorized Retailer and we just had a lady come in to see if we could fix her PowerBook G4. She walks in the store and comes up to me, 'Sir, I've got a baked Apple.' The top of the screen was a little brown and warped. The lady opened up the machine and the screen was all cracked, and there was not a single key left on the keyboard. It turns out she had the machine in the oven for 20 minutes, baking at 400 degrees. No joke. And what's even more amazing. The machine still works. Ethernet, Modem, USB, it all works. Plug in an external monitor and keyboard and it's good as new ... almost." Am I the only one for whom this conjures up images of Shrinky Dinks?
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Ce n'est pas un vrai mouvement de robot!
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Set of pics of the machine
Shows it still boots
Story behind this
More pics showing it works
Is those old Apple ][ advertisements, where one was toasted in a house fire, keyboard melted and it still worked after a transplant.
My homeowner's insurance covers (I think) 25% of the value of the house in possessions. I specifically asked if a laptop computer that got damaged while out of the house was covered. My agent said yes. YMMV with your own insurance company, though.
I doubt baking it in an oven would be covered, though.
A few months ago, one of my clients suffered a house fire. His Dell notebook suffered similar damage, but booted with an external keyboard and monitor. We were able to transfer the data from it, and stored it on our server until the replacement arrived.
So this is a big deal? Wish I'd know. I could have had a story on Slashdot!
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That was Macworld 1998. He (Schiller) didn't actually throw it onto the floor, he jumped off a scaffold onto a bean bag while holding the iBook.
The demo was more about showing how AirPort kept working even if you shoogled it around, not really about bounce-testing an iBook^Wexecutive.
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APPLE has a advertisement years back, for a Baked apple. Tey showed an APPLE II that was in a fire, and vollia, with a new keyboard and monitor, it still worked.
Its good to know that Apple keeps up with the tradition.
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Here's the Slashdot article and the original at Ars Technica.
Not necessarily. A lot of thermoset plastics need to be made a lot hotter than 400F to have much effect. Note that the keys popped off, but survived, and the plastic encasing the chips obviously did ok too. Thermoplastics would melt and run (and maybe burn), but thermosets can be remarkably tough.
It's interesting, but a bit slow. I first saw this on the Mac Observer forums 2 days ago, and I think they got it from Mac Addict or some other site.
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