AHHH!!! I dropped my MacBook down the stairs!!

[lukenn77]

Being the idiot that i am, i was walking down the stairs with my macbook open, taking it to show someone else in my house something, when i slipped and my mac fell out of my hands, hit the stairs, lid closed, bounced off the floor and hit a wall at the bottom :-( :S as you can imagine, my heart sunk!! Was it broken!?!?! I picked it up, and sure enough all was ok at first site. opened the screen and the window popped back up again, all how i had left it....what i need to know is is there any checks i should do to make sure i havnt actually done any internal damage that i dont know about yet? Thanks,

Luke

 

[chrisiw]

Pleased that you got away with it Luke, I dont know of any other checks that you should do, I would say if its working ok now, it is just fine.
Good Luck!
Chris

 

[lukenn77]

Thanks for the reply Chris, and yeah, im counting myself very very lucky!! About to invest in a nice hard outer case to protect my mac from my own clumsiness.lol

 

[chrisiw]

I think I will have to get one of those cases, and after reading your post I dont think I will carry mine around open anymore.

 

[Blade753]

Why would you? unless your going from a recliner to the couch where the charger is? I would never carry it open I want to protect my baby.

 

[RNDdave]

Wow, seriously you dropped a MacBook down stairs and it's ok?

Not a MacBook Pro?

If this is a MacBook; I'm well impressed I've always worried that my plastic MacBook looked a little delicate

 

[Blade753]

No way, the Macbook Air looks like it would break, the Macbook looks sturdy. How many stairs did it go down?

 

[lukenn77]

went down about 6 steps. i slipped backwards onto my bum and at the same time it slipped out of my hands, as it hit the first step luckily the impact caused the lid to close rather than snap off backwards, and then it just sort of rolled, until it hit the corner of a wall at the bottom :-s

got a small scratch/crack tucked down on the bottom corner of the back of the screen, but nothing that looks majorly serious, all cosmetic damage.....which still sucks!! macs always have been the best looking computers!!

 

[Blade753]

Yeah thats true, but still, Your REALLY lucky!

 

[lukenn77]

yeah tell me about it!! will think twice before i walk along with it like that again!!

 

[paul27]

That's lucky! Good for you! My Macbook recently dropped over 1 metre from inside a van, bouncing off the side of the van before landing on the soil. Fortunately it was inside its neoprene case, which helped to protect it from any damage. I also occasionally wander about with it open, but will take your experience and close it while about.

 

[chrisiw]

I have been thinking about a neoprene case, they seem to give quite a lot of protection, they have quite a few in PC World here in the UK

 

[soul.glo]

this is my worst nightmare. sounds like the mac angel was looking out for you and your laptop.

 

[dauber]

Just to be safe, back up your stuff NOW. You never know if the hard drive heads could have been knocked out of line and might gradually be going out of whack...

 

[JohnTheMacGeek]

Note to Self: ALWAYS close the lid on your MacBook hold on to it tight while walking around!

 

[KamileonX]

Horrah for Apple's move to have Sudden Motion Sensors on every notebook hard drive

 

[Blade753]

Yea how do those work? Do they just move those reader heads off to the side?

 

[sdsviet]

yea if there's a quick change in acceleration its stops the hdd from running. i wonder if they have them in the first gen mbps?

 

[D3v1L80Y]

yea if there's a quick change in acceleration its stops the hdd from running. i wonder if they have them in the first gen mbps?

It's been on every Apple Notebook since the last generation of PowerBooks.