MacBookPro -- Strong as an Ox!!

I did the same thing last summer, and my MBP is still running fine.

At 9:47 PM -0800 2/20/08, David Clark wrote:
>Parking and taking the MBP out of the
>saddlebags has always presented the risk of dropping the computer,
>and lo and behold, it happened again last week -- straight down and
>landing on a corner.
>
>Now, there's a very visible dent on one corner of the MBP, and it's
>so big the top part has popped open a bit. But, the whole thing is
>still working just fine!!

Dropped mine from the kitchen counter to a slate tile floor, onto a
corner. Had to replace the optical drive and both halves of the
bottom assembly. Not cheap at all to fix.

--
=Alex Hoffman
Leadership, Policy & Politics
Teachers College, Columbia University

At 9:47 PM -0800 02/20/2008, David Clark wrote:
>I normally carry my MacBookPro Intel (18 months old) in a padded
>envelope/case, then inside my briefcase, except when riding my
>motorcycle and then the MBP goes into the saddlebags inside the
>padded envelope/case. Parking and taking the MBP out of the
>saddlebags has always presented the risk of dropping the computer,
>and lo and behold, it happened again last week -- straight down and
>landing on a corner.

I would strongly advise you to buy a new hard disk, run a full backup
to it and then install it. I had very much the same experience you
did with my Pismo. Everything "worked fine" for about a year until
one of the read heads fell off. I'm working from theory here, but I
would bet real money that the drive failure was traceable to the
drop. Spent 1500 bucks at Drivesavers to recover data from a 60 buck
piece of hardware...
--

tom coradeschi
tcoraskylands.ibmwr.org

On Feb 24, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Tom Coradeschi <tcoraskylands.ibmwr.org>
wrote:

> At 9:47 PM -0800 02/20/2008, David Clark wrote:
>> I normally carry my MacBookPro Intel (18 months old) in a padded
>> envelope/case, then inside my briefcase, except when riding my
>> motorcycle and then the MBP goes into the saddlebags inside the
>> padded envelope/case. Parking and taking the MBP out of the
>> saddlebags has always presented the risk of dropping the computer,
>> and lo and behold, it happened again last week -- straight down and
>> landing on a corner.
>
> I would strongly advise you to buy a new hard disk, run a full backup
> to it and then install it. I had very much the same experience you
> did with my Pismo. Everything "worked fine" for about a year until
> one of the read heads fell off. I'm working from theory here, but I
> would bet real money that the drive failure was traceable to the
> drop. Spent 1500 bucks at Drivesavers to recover data from a 60 buck
> piece of hardware...

$60 for a new drive, $150 or so to install.??? Even with new drive,
still would have that dent. Super Duper has twice backed it up since
the accident, but the HD is making a strange humming noise now.


[I'm with Tom - make sure you have constant backups until you replace that drive, and I'd replace it soon. -Adam]

If your drive already makes a strange noise, I would consider it very vulnerable to any small shocks, even transportation may put it out of commission. Drives are inexpensive, it is relatively easy to do the installation job yourself, but certainly also worth the money to pay for it. This web-site has good instructions for do-it-yourself: http://www.ifixit.com/

-cheers and good luck, arent