You need internals protected from basic shock. Macbooks are notoriously very poor regarding drops while you can play volleyball with a plastic thinkpad.
You need internals protected from basic shock. Macbooks are notoriously very poor regarding drops while you can play volleyball with a plastic thinkpad.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Just don’t drop your laptop lmao, how hard can it be?
I’ve never dropped my Thinkpad even, and those are actually easier to accidentally trip over since they don’t have Magsafe.
Also I’ve seen hundreds of dented Macbooks work completely fine. Same with plastic laptops like the Thinkpad and Elitebook except they’d usually have a hole or crack in the corner after the drop instead of a dent.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a common security fallacy as sure you might not drop your laptop like you’re not crashing your car but once you hit something it’s nice to have airbags right? People pay several thousand dollars to recover hard drives of dropped laptops and can you imagine being in such stressful position? So a bit of safety goes a long way.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Backups exist for all the important stuff and who even uses a spinny spinny crashy anymore? SSDs are incredibly fall resistant. Now Apple does make it difficult to recover data off a completely dead motherboard since in some models the storage is integrated, but it’d take a LOT of force to kill the motherboard. Not a drop from any usage height, it’d have to be out of a window on a fairly high floor.
I’m also incredibly privileged in that I know several people who repair these things professionally (usually liquid damage) so I can get these motherboards repaired for cheap too. Rest of the laptop doesn’t matter much, you can always find a donor or 2 to rebuild. Lovely part of having fewer SKUs and more units shipped per SKU than most other manufacturers. I used to do this professionally and it was always easier with Macs because we were able to stock and catalog all the parts for all the models made in, at the time like previous 8 years. With non-Apple laptops, we only stocked parts for select super mainstream business models. Think Thinkpad T and X series only.
iopq@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You may not want to, but when you get food poisoning and have to run to the bathroom to throw up, you may knock the laptop over
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I kinda get your point, but:
Not a high enough fall to cause actual* damage usually.
Tiny bit less likely to happen on a Mac because while you can still knock the laptop over, you’re WAY less likely to trip over the cable and pull it down. Magsafe is a godsend and I wish more manufacturers used it. I wish it was standardized.
* To the internals of the laptop, anyway. For the external bits: this is actually where the aluminium body is better than plastic. If it DOES deform, at the heights my laptops would usually be, it’s such a tiny dent nobody will notice it most of the time. Cheap plastic laptops would develop a literal hole. Particularly nasty with laptops that don’t easily come apart into a top and bottom case assembly. Something like a Thinkpad is excellent here though, because the bottom case comes off first when disassembling and it’s more likely to take damage than the palmrest.
Once you get to really big falls, plastic laptops are better because the internals are better protected. I don’t really throw my laptops out of 3rd story windows though. But if I worked at like a construction site, I’d absolutely prefer my laptop to be either something like a Toughbook, or a Thinkpad X240 or X250. I think Lenovo stopped making them as tough as those old models were, but I could be wrong. Those things you could easily drive over with a tractor lol
iopq@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The damage is usually to the laptop charging port. Magsafe for PCs when?