Found Footage: The Powerbook snowboard

Ok, we'll admit it -- the recent snowpocalypse may have driven some people nuts. But probably not this nuts -- these two German guys wanted to go snowboarding, but didn't actually have a snowboard around, so they did what most of us would naturally do in this situation: take two old PowerBooks, connect them together and put some shoes on them, and go snowboarding.

Ok, so most of us might not do that (and while our German isn't that great, this actually looks like a viral plug for some Asus laptops), but those laptops actually hold up pretty darn well. The keyboard can't take a drill, and they probably shouldn't be breathing that smoke. But in terms of structural integrity, it looks like you can actually snowboard with an old PowerBook. Even if this is just a viral, we'd like to see them try the same thing with the laptops they're hawking in five to ten years.

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Source: http://www.zweckentfremder.at/videos/rutscherlpartie.html

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When will the torture end

Best use ever for an Apple outside of maybe a pothole fill.

March 01 2010 at 2:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ken4ji

I teach school and am in need of a laptop which neither I nor my school can afford to buy. Before anybody else gets bored(no pun intended) with their life and wish to destroy a usable laptop I would gladly take it off their hands. Email me at ken4ji@aol.com. I really do teach school and I really do need a laptop. Any help out there would dearly be appreciated.

March 01 2010 at 12:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

CraZy Germans. It may be dumb, but at least they didn't hurt anyone. :)

February 28 2010 at 11:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JustinOpinion

No wonder they lost the war......

February 28 2010 at 10:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brink

Just proves they have good dope in Austria.

February 28 2010 at 9:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kipphopopotamus

I can't believe they did that to such beautiful machines...i know it's in the name of good fun, and they can afford it, but watching them tear that hardware apart sent a chill down my spine. Funny, yet painful to watch

February 28 2010 at 8:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Markus H.

those guys are actually from austria, not from germany. And they seem to run some kind of diy-blog, where you can win asus-stuff for whatever reason. Maybe it is viral, but imho it may be just the crazyness that austrians are famous for and those guys are trying to create some "jackass"-brand. The powerbook-snowboard is on ebay btw: Item 290404748682

February 26 2010 at 12:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Markus H.

command-shift->

February 26 2010 at 11:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hmcnally

DummkÃ¶pfe.

February 26 2010 at 11:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cameron Talley

What a waste of two perfectly good computers. If you're going to do something like this, at least do it properly, not just duct-taping things together!

February 26 2010 at 10:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply