My laptop bag (my 15" al pb in a padded sleeve inside) which was sitting vertically fell over flat and the zipper on the outside of the bag was enough to ding the lid
Oh well- I guess it was bound to happen eventually.
You must be talking about a Ti. The new Al's dent very easily!
Aluminum does dent easily so does titanium. If you ever look at Range Rover the sheet metal usually has waves all over it. Aluminum is strong but soft but most of all it is light. But all that is a good thing aluminum will withstand certain types of forces because it gives.But the trade off is the lighter you go the thinner it gets and the more likely it is to dent (an increase surface area and a pucker) Cast iron rarely dents and is fairly strong. how bout it guys? a feBook! or better yet depleted uranium. Be the first on your block. I am hoping to get by more than a week before I dent mine. I only made it about 2 with the tiBook
Although there are a squillion different types of Al alloy, I guess Apple ditched Ti because Ti is extremely expensive, and its manufacturing process is extremely wasteful. Even so, if you have enough of it you can make gucci toys like these:
(The world's deepest diving and fastest production submarine)
Then again, you can also use Ti to make this:
(the Ti panels buckle if you touch them)
So, Apple swapped to Al alloy for its latest PBs. Although John Ive is right in saying its 'extremely durable', that durability is not much use if you do this to your Al alloy machine:
Umm, you drop your powerbook and you expect to be unscathed? I bet if you jump on it, you'll break it, too.
I've had my 12" powerbook since January and I've barely even scratched it. And it's with me 95% of the time.
al powerbooks are easily dented. laptops are made to be portable and used and used in the field. not babies and cradled and packaged with bubble wrap 24/7.
there comes a point where as beautiful as it may be, the side effects are not worth it. the new 15 inch albook is gorgeous, but i don't like it for the all the quality problems, and the fact that its easily dented. what good is that
i'd love to see photos of these dents. i'm telling you, over half a year there's not a nick, dent or scratch on my wife's PB, and she was bringing it to school every day. (and she didn't baby it at all)
it has always felt a lot tougher to my than my 15" TiBook, so i'm not sure why so many people think they're more fragile/likely to dent.
You guys go ahead and argue the relative merits of metal and plastic. I'll be over here trying not to beat the living hell out of my $2000 consumer electronics devices.
How is aluminum for flexing, I heard that the TiBooks suffered from the screen flexing a lot. I also am wondering because when I close my AlBook I somtimes without thinking about it push on it from the center of the lid and that makes LCD funkiness I'm sure you all have experienced. Is that really bad for it, possibly long term causing white spots, dead/stuck pixels? Or am I just paranoid and it doesn't do a damn thing besides freak me out?
I am working on not doing this but it is a new concept to have to be more careful with a computer then my old days of being able to punch, kick or use as a seat.
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sure you can do it, but it's gotta either be back luck or effort.
He said he dropped in inside a padded bag and it still made the dent, so yes it certainly does seem that the AL Powerbooks are easily dented.
Originally posted by alcimedes
my wife carried hers around in a bag for over 8 months now. not a nick on it.
That might be the case... but it didn't take much force to cause this dent.
Originally posted by alcimedes
my wife carried hers around in a bag for over 8 months now. not a nick on it. sorry, but those suckers are not "easy" to ding.
sure you can do it, but it's gotta either be back luck or effort.
You must be talking about a Ti. The new Al's dent very easily!
Originally posted by lsngctrl
You must be talking about a Ti. The new Al's dent very easily!
Aluminum does dent easily so does titanium. If you ever look at Range Rover the sheet metal usually has waves all over it. Aluminum is strong but soft but most of all it is light. But all that is a good thing aluminum will withstand certain types of forces because it gives.But the trade off is the lighter you go the thinner it gets and the more likely it is to dent (an increase surface area and a pucker) Cast iron rarely dents and is fairly strong. how bout it guys? a feBook! or better yet depleted uranium. Be the first on your block. I am hoping to get by more than a week before I dent mine. I only made it about 2 with the tiBook
My Ti has taken months of punishment and still looks brand new, the Alu looked worse after only a few weeks...
Then again, you can also use Ti to make this:
So, Apple swapped to Al alloy for its latest PBs. Although John Ive is right in saying its 'extremely durable', that durability is not much use if you do this to your Al alloy machine:
I've had my 12" powerbook since January and I've barely even scratched it. And it's with me 95% of the time.
Does anyone have a picture of a dent?
I'm hearing so many mixed reports. I don't know whether to baby my new 12" DVI PowerBook, or carry it eveywhere...
Originally posted by penseive
Umm, you drop your powerbook and you expect to be unscathed? I bet if you jump on it, you'll break it, too.
I've had my 12" powerbook since January and I've barely even scratched it. And it's with me 95% of the time.
al powerbooks are easily dented. laptops are made to be portable and used and used in the field. not babies and cradled and packaged with bubble wrap 24/7.
there comes a point where as beautiful as it may be, the side effects are not worth it. the new 15 inch albook is gorgeous, but i don't like it for the all the quality problems, and the fact that its easily dented. what good is that
it has always felt a lot tougher to my than my 15" TiBook, so i'm not sure why so many people think they're more fragile/likely to dent.
Mine's holding up like a champ.
Originally posted by coolmac
Leo Laporte from TechTV showed his 12" Powerbook on The Screen Savers with a nice dent in one of the corners.
He said he dropped in inside a padded bag and it still made the dent, so yes it certainly does seem that the AL Powerbooks are easily dented.
As opposed to the fricking huge crack a plastic pc notebook would have suffered?
Originally posted by KidRed
As opposed to the fricking huge crack a plastic pc notebook would have suffered?
u mean when the plastic would bend and return to its original state?
again, if you have them post them and how you got them.
I am working on not doing this but it is a new concept to have to be more careful with a computer then my old days of being able to punch, kick or use as a seat.
Ahh well...