Filed under: Humor, MacBook Air
MacBook Air: dangerous weapon?
Engadget has a silly, but mildly humorous post up on a German MacBook Air user who claims his elbow was sliced open by the sharp front edge of the Air. In addition to his sliced up elbow (bis aufs Fleisch!), he says that his couch was ruined by all the blood. Just what we need, another reason for the TSA to ban the Air: it's a deadly weapon. So Air owners out there, have any of you been attacked by your ultraportable Mac?
Update: As one of our commenters pointed out this story was generated by a mistaken translation. The guy's elbow was cut by a regular MacBook, not an Air.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
YoshimiMac said 12:09PM on 5-28-2008
Nice vest, idiot!
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Paul said 12:11PM on 5-28-2008
The cut wasn´t done by a MacBook Air but a good ol´ MacBook....
And he also said that the bloodstain is almost totally out of his couch, so no probs at all :)
Really funny, how this story made it over the whole internet in 2 days!
Almost like a global round of "telephone game"
Greetz from Germany!
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moo083 said 12:14PM on 5-28-2008
No kidding. That bread picture is really funny in its real context of just being a silly joke.
I was so confused about this story. I was thinking Apple would never release something so dangerous. And then I was in an Apple Store yesterday and felt the edges and was not surprised to find out its a hoax caused by a crappy translation by Engadget.
Chad Zeluff said 12:12PM on 5-28-2008
Never attacked. But it did get pretty damn hot, stutter on video, and force me to bang my head into the table....resulting in an injury.
Happy Blackbook owner now :P
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filpaul said 12:32PM on 5-28-2008
No wonder airport security didn't want to let this thing through.
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Bram O. said 12:45PM on 5-28-2008
On the same site ther is a picture of someone cutting a loaf of bread with a MBA.
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Patrick said 1:14PM on 5-28-2008
Well, the MacBooks front Edge tend to splitter in a way one cold easily hurt himself
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Shawin said 1:25PM on 5-28-2008
Ye that's true the good-old-macbook's inner edges are really quite sharp. Never cut myself with it though.
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Metryq said 1:48PM on 5-28-2008
The MacBook shuriken!
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bibi-pov said 2:43PM on 5-28-2008
I don't know how you guys would hurt yourselves with a macbook, it's made of plastic. But I already cut myself with the inner side of the silver bezel of my iPhone, this one is razor sharp.
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Seishi said 3:15PM on 5-28-2008
MacBook error.
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Rich said 4:21PM on 5-28-2008
We've had three Macbooks in our household, all white, split on the outermost edge where the lid supports on either side of the screen close against the bottom portion of the keyboard. The edges are sharp indeed once this happens and the only fix is new keyboards.
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badweasel said 5:19PM on 5-28-2008
I've cut myself on the macbook before. I've also cut my finger on the iPhone headphone jack with is also pretty sharp.
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mike said 3:41PM on 6-02-2008
Poor Little Macbook Air...
I have had something come up the last week or so on my MBA that was bothering me. I use a MBA with an external 20 inch monitor in my office at work. Everyday for the last week when I would get to work in the morning and start using the computer, it would imidiatley get hot and the fan would ramp up to around 9000 RMP... Then the computer would start to REALLY SLOW DOWN - to the point where my mouse would track really slowly and applications become unresponsive... Everyday this would continue until about noon and then the computer would cool down and run normally. Then Today I figured it out... each day for the last week, the sun was blasting through my window in the morning. The MBA is made of an aluminium casing and the poor little MBA's metal casing was heating up from solar radiation. Then around noon as the sun passed away from my window the puter would cool down and everything was cool again... Apple Industrial designers, obviously chic not geek...
Anyone have this problem??? - Pull the blinds in the morning. :)
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