My daughter just threw my PowerBook on a concrete floor!!
And I didn't care.
She's just turned 16 months old, and I bought her her first laptop. A nice, kick ass PowerBook 145.
OK you can't do squat on it, but the kid LOVES to type (OK bang) on the keyboard, and she just loves it. Plug it in, put it on the coffee table, and she's taken care of for an hour. Best $30 I ever spent.
She actually did just pick it up and drop it a couple feet to on the lino in the kitchen (concrete floor underneath) and man did it make a racket... booted up very slowly, but all seems well with it. Tough little bastards.
She was nuts over my PowerBook, and getting a little too rough for me to keep letting her type on it, etc. Bought this as an insurance policy on my real PowerBook.
Pretty sad to think these things were thousands of dollars when they came out, now you can find them for $15-40 on eBay.
[ 06-07-2002: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>
She's just turned 16 months old, and I bought her her first laptop. A nice, kick ass PowerBook 145.
OK you can't do squat on it, but the kid LOVES to type (OK bang) on the keyboard, and she just loves it. Plug it in, put it on the coffee table, and she's taken care of for an hour. Best $30 I ever spent.
She actually did just pick it up and drop it a couple feet to on the lino in the kitchen (concrete floor underneath) and man did it make a racket... booted up very slowly, but all seems well with it. Tough little bastards.
She was nuts over my PowerBook, and getting a little too rough for me to keep letting her type on it, etc. Bought this as an insurance policy on my real PowerBook.
Pretty sad to think these things were thousands of dollars when they came out, now you can find them for $15-40 on eBay.
[ 06-07-2002: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>
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Would kind of go with the Wong Brothers line...
Glad to see she's happy with her new toy.
<strong>Holy **** ! I thought you meant a Pismo or Ti
The Powerbook 145 has a floppy. The 100 and the duos did not have an internal floppy, you may be thinking of one of those units.
I wish Apple would simply make THICK-walled powerbooks. i don't actually mind a 8-lb notebook, I want a desktop replacement that I can whale aroud with.
The second thing that went through my head is "hey, I'll bet someone $10 murbot's next computer isn't a portable!"
I'm glad it wasn't your TiBook. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
I am quite offended!
I have a feeling your daughter will love notebook computers
[ 06-09-2002: Message edited by: MacsKickAss ]</p>
Poor bastard...
BTW that 145 is freaking out now, that fall must have done something... no matter, just took it apart and have a hard drive from a PB140 here to swap.
Problem is that it didn't fall from a great enough height, so all that happened is a hinge broke. Also, the guy didn't post any photos. I want to see photos of the gruesome damage, also, a few shots of the owner's facial expression wouldn't hurt, either.
<strong>Whoa! Thanks for the link, Murbot.
Problem is that it didn't fall from a great enough height, so all that happened is a hinge broke. Also, the guy didn't post any photos. I want to see photos of the gruesome damage, also, a few shots of the owner's facial expression wouldn't hurt, either.
I've dropped my Pismo twice (onto carpet) and its fine and dandy....
JYD- I dropped the TiBook (it was still connected to the power socket and it slipped out of my hand when I went to walk away from the table) and the side of the screen cracked and split apart. Now that little accident is going to cost me about half the cost of the laptop itself to fix (they say the screen will have to be replaced). :eek:
But, I'm not going to do that. What the heck - it still works - it's just unsightly. I could spend $3000Au in other ways.
Our 170 still works like charm. More reliable than our 233MHz Wallstreet. That was a quality line of 'books...