acnpt Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I see your box of tissues, and I raise it. :p Grinch 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted March 16, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 16, 2010 I see your box of tissues, and I raise it. :p Oooooh now that's an idea - I have an old G4 cube case that I was going to turn into a fishtank/water feature a while ago but never got around to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Man you are having the worst luck Snoopy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SakuraKira Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 .....that's it? I'm sure it looks worse in person, those kinds of things usually do. I would be as devastated as the OP if it happened to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I'd be pretty mad myself, my 2 macbook pros never got scratched or damaged in any way the whole time I owned them and I would have been pretty upset if it would have happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blachole Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Anybody would be upset at any type of scratch or dent, especially on a MacBook. Plus it lowers the retail value of the MacBook if they ever choose to sell it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCA Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Anybody would be upset at any type of scratch or dent, especially on a MacBook. Plus it lowers the retail value of the MacBook if they ever choose to sell it.. yeah but not by much if everything else is perfectly fine and boots how it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle A Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I own a MBP as well and I can understand what he is going through. If I had a dent like that I would be throwing fits as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 That really sucks. You could replace the display. ifixit sell them. But lets be honest here its very exspensive. You could probably recoup some of the cost by reselling your own display on ebay but I doubt you'd get much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doli Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Put some more scratches and dents on it and call it a special design pattern for your MBP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Just be glad it didn't damage any of of the internals to boot. But I know how you feel. I scratched my iPhones screen shortly after getting it. And they are hard to scratch, but not when you drop it on concrete and skid on it with full body weight :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 I think I've got you beat there, buddy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted March 20, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted March 20, 2010 Poor you! But that's not a brand new one. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo0o Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 oh god. i feel for u man. i treat my mbp with such care... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulphy Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 lol!!!!!!! Get a real laptop!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicken-royal Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 I think I've got you beat there, buddy! At first glance I thought that was a really cool yet obscure wallpaper. :p Sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediVh Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 here i was expecting something insanely huge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rev Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 I bought a 13" MBP after the whole debacle I went through trying to buy a MacBook on Neobay (check my post history if you care to know...) now... guess what I have just done... I dropped my TV remote control onto my MBP from about ~2ft onto the lid of my MBP...... deneted and scratched... :( all from a TV remote control :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: Look on the bright side.... at least you didnt damage the LCD screen..... THAT would have been a several hundred dollar mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Just on a side note while we're at it. If you ever break your screen and don't have Apple Care, DO NOT let Apple fix it. They'll probably charge you something like $700 to replace it. You can find replacement screens for about $100 or less on ebay, and then you just have to find someone who is willing to put it in for you. It's really not a hard job. I've replaced several laptop screens and it's just basically taking off the bezel, unscrewing the old one, and putting the new one in. I might charge $200 at the most to do it for someone. Edit: As for why I say that and mine is broken... it's hooked into a 37" screen. I'm not too worried about it right now, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruckWEB Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Cry baby.... Worst thing could happen you know. It's a laptop, it's going to get some dings and scratch anyway, live with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndoftheEpiphany Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 wow that really sucks. I'd cry too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dave164 Subscriber¹ Posted April 3, 2010 Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 3, 2010 I'm a PC and non-aluminum lids was my idea. But seriously. Sorry to hear about your dent, I remember scratching my car for the first time, sucks, but then it doesn't matter :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
08993 Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 You could probably get that dent out... but I suppose with it being uni body taking the back panel off wouldn't be easy, if at all possible. :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDT Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Well, I remember when I bought my first PDA, an HP...something, can't remember the model. It had gsm support too, big memory, bla bla, I was extremely happy with it. It cost about 700$ at that time. The next day, I got up from my desk in a hurry and, while I was carrying the PDA in my pocket, I smashed it on the desk's corner. The display was broken, HP wanted about 450$ to replace it, so I end up selling the damn thing for 200$ to a guy who needed it for spare parts. So...**** happens. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted April 4, 2010 Veteran Share Posted April 4, 2010 I bought a 13" MBP after the whole debacle I went through trying to buy a MacBook on Neobay (check my post history if you care to know...) now... guess what I have just done... I dropped my TV remote control onto my MBP from about ~2ft onto the lid of my MBP...... deneted and scratched... :( all from a TV remote control :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: It's dented and scratched a little bit? That's better than smashing the whole screen so you can't see a thing. That's what I did to my fairly new Toshiba laptop last week. Some fool (probably me) had accidently wrapped the ethernet cable round the chair I was sitting on, so when I moved the chair... it pulled the laptop off the desk :/ I didn't cry, but I am gutted. If it's only a dent, surely it'll be easy to live with? At least it won't cost you tonnes of money to be able to use your laptop again like it will me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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