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Baked Apple

Posted by pudge on from the mmmmm-powerbook dept.

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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  1. Re:Gosh, that was quick by rco3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmmm... no, try this link instead; it may contain more suitable content.

    http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/Personal8.ht ml

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  2. Bad link in article by nucal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try this one for baked apple

  3. Just to finish the job by chabotc · · Score: 4, Informative

    These are all the relevant urls:

    Set of pics of the machine

    Shows it still boots

    Story behind this

    More pics showing it works

  4. What this reminds me of... by sqlrob · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is those old Apple ][ advertisements, where one was toasted in a house fire, keyboard melted and it still worked after a transplant.

  5. Re:So can it be fixed? by EricWright · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  6. Not a big deal by mj01nir · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  7. Re:Also at Macworld by Textbook+Error · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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  8. The classic "Baked Apple" ad by Faust7 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Here it is, as much as I could find of it:

    http://www.weaselcollectibles.com/cart/item-detail .cfm?ID=6152

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  9. Re:I'm more amazed.... by Cruciform · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the Slashdot article and the original at Ars Technica.

  10. Re:WTF? by Alex+Thorpe · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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