That Oh Shit Moment...

[davidgillon]

... when you come half-awake, try to roll over, and feel the laptop start to slide off your chest.....

I'm quite impressed I almost managed to grab it in mid-air, but I didn't quite. Fortunately it landed on its end, had only dropped about a foot and seems to be fine.

But that was not my favourite way to wake up.

Comments

[yhlee]

Yai!

I once dropped a Powerbook 1400cs four feet. Not only did it not break, it kept running. If only my Air were as sturdily built!

[jesse_the_k]

Phew.

The single best thing Apple designed is the Magsafe connector. Instead of plugging in, the power cord ends in a male-ish magnet connector, with a female-ish magnetic socket on the machine. A light touch on the cord disconnects the power; it cannot trip you or pull the laptop off the table.

Foolishly, Apple has dropped the MagSafe in its newest models in favor of USB C.

[davidgillon]

While I've never had a Mac, the Magsafe on a friend's Mac really impressed me.

But it won't do much for spilling the entire laptop off your sleeping chest!

[davidgillon]

Spoke too soon, noticed yesterday the case is cracked most of the way across the hinge and the battery compartment won't stay properly shut. I think the hinge may be fixable with superglue, and the actual structure is probably beneath the plastic, rather than the plastic itself, but annoying.