My daughter just threw my PowerBook on a concrete floor!!

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
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>

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 17
    stimulistimuli Posts: 564member
    Phew!
  • Reply 2 of 17
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    Hey stimuli, you should pitch that quote to Abercrombi & Fitch.



    Would kind of go with the Wong Brothers line...
  • Reply 3 of 17
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    When I saw the topic I got a little worried there, murbot.



    Glad to see she's happy with her new toy.
  • Reply 4 of 17
    undotwaundotwa Posts: 97member
    Holy **** ! I thought you meant a Pismo or Ti PowerBook 145? Are they even colour? They don't have a floppy I don't think That just proves that this 'floppy to no floppy' was a gradual migration.
  • Reply 5 of 17
    [quote]Originally posted by undotwa:

    <strong>Holy **** ! I thought you meant a Pismo or Ti PowerBook 145? Are they even colour? They don't have a floppy I don't think That just proves that this 'floppy to no floppy' was a gradual migration.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    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.
  • Reply 6 of 17
    cdhostagecdhostage Posts: 1,038member
    The only Powerbooks that could survive that were the 100 series and the Pismo. All the rest had brittle plastic casing or, recently, easily-scratched titanium.



    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.
  • Reply 7 of 17
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    I saw the title and the first thing that went through my head is OUCH!



    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]" />
  • Reply 8 of 17
    Hehe. The title definitely had me worried. So, what are you gonna trade the 145 for? An AppleIIe?
  • Reply 9 of 17
    junkyard dawgjunkyard dawg Posts: 2,801member
    I feel abused by the title of this thread. I opened it expecting some entertaining story filled with grief and gory details about Titanium panels splitting open and mobo parts spewing out. Instead I get some lame story about a baby playing with an obsolete laptop.



    I am quite offended!
  • Reply 10 of 17
    macskickassmacskickass Posts: 108member
    LOL this is pretty funny. I'm just catching my breath! I started to panic (slight exageration) when I thought Mur had lost a TiBook or something!



    I have a feeling your daughter will love notebook computers



    [ 06-09-2002: Message edited by: MacsKickAss ]</p>
  • Reply 11 of 17
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    Well JWD, you could read <a href="http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=005067"; target="_blank">this</a> just posted at MacNN.



    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.
  • Reply 12 of 17
    junkyard dawgjunkyard dawg Posts: 2,801member
    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.



  • Reply 13 of 17
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg:

    <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.



    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Why? What's with you?
  • Reply 14 of 17
    JYD just loves the gore.... nothing but shattered into millions of pieces will satisfy his bloodlust...

    I've dropped my Pismo twice (onto carpet) and its fine and dandy....
  • Reply 15 of 17
    mac+mac+ Posts: 580member
    Murbot - cute post



    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.
  • Reply 16 of 17
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    Murbot, you'd best ship the Ti over to me, where I can give it a good home, before it befalls a similar fate. Naturally I will provide this sanctuary free of charge, so long as you pay the shipping costs.
  • Reply 17 of 17
    macaddictmacaddict Posts: 1,055member
    My dad will be disappointed to hear that laptops similiar to his PowerBook 170 (he paid the original MSRP for his...around $4800) is only usable as a child's toy.



    Our 170 still works like charm. More reliable than our 233MHz Wallstreet. That was a quality line of 'books...
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