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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?
no... I look down on people who do not demonstrate the basic intelligence and reasoning skills necessary to avert this kind of 'disaster'. Everyone makes mistakes, but there are some courses of action that even a 12 year old knows how to avoid.... While part of me would hate to see a user a) deprived of their machine b) soured to a great vendor such as Apple for the rest of his/her life, I really hope that the Apple isn't forced to eat the repair costs for a user's act of gross stupidity.
if anyone knows who to attribute the following quote to, please let me know.
"You can't cure 'stupid'." - anon.
Remember the Space Clam iBook? The corners were double-shod rubber wrapped around the two frontmost corners, which (on this model) were the likeliest impact points in the event of a drop. The newer iBooks have an HD that is encased in a brick of rubber. Aluminum/titanium frames. This is the stuff you want in a laptop.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
He's being paid to fix it, not to ask questions.
Who thinks like that? How can you train your brain not to function? How can you train yourself not to be curious? "Why?" would have been the first thing out of my mouth.As long as she's willing to pay money for the job, it's none of his business.
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This is something that I could see a 3 year old doing. Thinking that he could play a joke the kid will hide the Computer in the over because that is somewhere no one would look for it. Not knowing this the mother is about to cook something and preheats the oven at 400. after 20 minutes she opens the door to see her expensive laptop in the stove with the white apple starting to brown and the keys fizzling. Using potholder she quickly gets the computer out of the oven. This is just a possible story on what possibly could of happend where the lady was of average intelegance. when little kids are involved random things can happen to people that seem compleatly irationail otherwise.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
So maybe we're not hearing the reasons because this person wants to keep her job.
(I know ten women like this customer, though. Think of how casual she was in saying her little "baked apple" thing. Didn't faze her much. This is a woman with serious money and no sense. She miplaces four cell phones a year, at least.)
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
I don't get it. This is a 15", $2,400.00 powerbook, right? And she dumped it, without explanation, at a repair shop, because fixing it would be $1,000.00 for the new screen?
This story has the stink of "bullshit" written all over it, frankly.
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
or government...
. . . is nothing compared to the boundlessness of stupidity.
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
I have heard other people put stuff in the oven for this reason. Then they turn on the oven.
I saw a baked Compaq Armada like this. But then, it didn't get stolen.
It still worked fine after 10 mins at 180C in a fan-forced oven. If you do this, take off the ON knob.
I'd like to see comparative tests for Intel and AMD baked this way (as opposed to removing the heat sink). Let's see the Intel try and cool off by lowering the clock speed now.