[Laminar]

Macbook Air Murder is Today's BIG Thing in Technology - MAY 08, 2009

The funny thing is that the difference in screen quality is very apparent.

[Cold Warrior]

And the flicker on the IBM too makes the screen look like ass.

He looks like some spoiled rich kid.

[finboy]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Macbook Air Murder is Today's BIG Thing in Technology - MAY 08, 2009

The funny this is that the difference in screen quality is very apparent.

Shows how f*cking stupid some people can be. Otherwise, I want my time back.

[mattyb]

The best part of that bloke ran down the crack of his mother's ....

[ghporter]

Well that was mature, wasn't it... Hmmm. Maybe, instead of actively destroying the thing, he could have-say-taken it to Apple and asked for a refund because of a mechanical problem that seems to be present in a lot of these units? Nahh. Let's bust it into pieces then use an old POS ThinkPad that you can't even look at without having a seizure. Yeah, that's the intelligent, mature way to go.

[Shaddim]

Wow, Apple would have fixed that for free.

Just another idiot on the internets, nothing special.

[- - e r i k - -]

The IBM is apparently much harder to write on?

[starman]

*sigh*

What a moron. I would have paid him for that thing and fixed it.

[brassplayersrock²]

this guy is making all spoiled rich kids look bad. oh wait...

[ctt1wbw]

Hmmm.. I bought an Air about a month after they came out. Mine still looks like new. Probably because I treat them like I actually paid for it with my own money instead of my parent's money.

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

The funny thing is that the difference in screen quality is very apparent.

My thoughts exactly.

[angelmb]

The world of computers today is a race between software and interface engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning, its latest entry -that Apple hater guy- has acquired such damn good skills that is easy to assure he is going to be undefeated for the next decade.

[mattyb]

^ The scary thing about these people is that you realise they vote / drive / are allowed out in public.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

^ The scary thing about these people is that you realise they vote / drive / are allowed out in public.

No, they complain about the outcomes of elections, (fortunately they seldom bother to vote, but they are very free with opinions about the choices made by those of us who do vote), and they "point motor vehicles" ("driving" implies thought and applied training-neither of which you can do while simultaneously texting and messing with your iPod in traffic). But you're right, they are allowed out in public unsupervised, which is bad for everyone.

[ctt1wbw]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

^ The scary thing about these people is that you realise they vote / drive / are allowed out in public.

They're just too stupid to call AppleCare and get it fixenated. And I bet they spent more on the Thinkpad than the Air. And yes, the screen quality is more than obvious.

[Zeeb]

The video also appears on youtube. I wonder if they endgame here is to get ad revenue--which might greatly exceed the cost of a new macbook air.

[andi*pandi]

how old was that thinkpad?

despite the hinge being broken, the airbook looked pretty functional. what a waste.

[ctt1wbw]

Well, we all know that the Macbook Air is completely unusable. It has no firewire ports at all, only ONE usb port. No internal optical drive. Huge bezels and a huge footprint. Plus a small hard drive which is slower than dog ****. It has no other ports at all, plus no built in ethernet port, so you can't even get online.

Remember all those excuses when it came out? I do.

[Archiform 3D]

I agree... It is stupid. I would definitely like tis spoilt idiot to pay me back for the minute I just lost on that.

[CollinG3G4]

A real man would have bent it in half.

[Koralatov]

Originally Posted by CollinG3G4 

A real man would have bent it in half whilst closed.

Fixenated.™

I’m pretty sure my girlfriend would cry if she saw this; she loves her Air. I, on the other hand, am just disgusted.

[brassplayersrock²]

I messaged the guy "you could have gotten apple care to repair your computer." his reply "I tried that, Applesucks said they couldn't repair because of user damage."

I'm not siding with the spoiled guy, but haven't there been reports of this not being under standard warranty.

[Koralatov]

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² 

I messaged the guy "you could have gotten apple care to repair your computer." his reply "I tried that, Applesucks said they couldn't repair because of user damage."

I’m pretty sure stabbing any Apple product repeatedly with a knife won’t be covered by Apple Care…

I'm not siding with the spoiled guy, but haven't there been reports of this not being under standard warranty.

But seriously, I don’t imagine it’s a huge, endemic problem, because I’d never even heard of it today. Not, of course, that I’m claiming absolute knowledge of all Apple hardware problems, but I read enough Apple web to have at least heard of most of the really serious problems.

[Shaddim]

That's hogwash, they'll fix it. If the first guy says no, you keep moving up the chain.

[brassplayersrock²]

Originally Posted by Koralatov 

I’m pretty sure stabbing any Apple product repeatedly with a knife won’t be covered by Apple Care…


But seriously, I don’t imagine it’s a huge, endemic problem, because I’d never even heard of it today. Not, of course, that I’m claiming absolute knowledge of all Apple hardware problems, but I read enough Apple web to have at least heard of most of the really serious problems.

MacBook Air hinge defect not covered by Apple's warranty?

[turtle777]

Looks like guerrilla marketing to me.

I wouldn't be shocked if he guy got paid by IBM...

-t