Comments on: First Impressions on the MacBook Air http://www.hoogyweb.com/2008/01/15/first-impressions-on-the-macbook-air/ Video, Graphics, Music, Tech, and All-Round Nerdiness Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: travis http://www.hoogyweb.com/2008/01/15/first-impressions-on-the-macbook-air/comment-page-1/#comment-3 travis Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:33:01 +0000 http://www.hoogyweb.com/?p=86#comment-3 Because Aluminum is flimsy. I brought my old PowerBook in for work once and they told me "We can't fix this." I asked them why and they said "You clearly dropped it." When I told them "that's news to me" they asked me how it got dented, and I told them "Because it's made of ALUMINUM: A SOFT, FLIMSY METAL." They wound up fixing some of it's issues, but since then, I've vowed never again to buy an aluminum laptop. The titanium G4's were great on the other hand. You had to literally TRY to dent those suckers... which is why I suspect Apple purposefully discontinued titanium. It was too sturdy, and they had to service a lot more warranties as a result. But if you work at an Apple store and see a dent on an aluminum enclosure, you can easily write it off as dropped, void the warranty, and save Apple hundreds. Because Aluminum is flimsy. I brought my old PowerBook in for work once and they told me “We can’t fix this.” I asked them why and they said “You clearly dropped it.” When I told them “that’s news to me” they asked me how it got dented, and I told them “Because it’s made of ALUMINUM: A SOFT, FLIMSY METAL.”

They wound up fixing some of it’s issues, but since then, I’ve vowed never again to buy an aluminum laptop.

The titanium G4′s were great on the other hand. You had to literally TRY to dent those suckers… which is why I suspect Apple purposefully discontinued titanium. It was too sturdy, and they had to service a lot more warranties as a result. But if you work at an Apple store and see a dent on an aluminum enclosure, you can easily write it off as dropped, void the warranty, and save Apple hundreds.

]]> By: Cheap Laptops http://www.hoogyweb.com/2008/01/15/first-impressions-on-the-macbook-air/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Cheap Laptops Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:12:33 +0000 http://www.hoogyweb.com/?p=86#comment-2 I'm curious, why would you consider to bring plastic laptop around and not the aluminum one? I’m curious, why would you consider to bring plastic laptop around and not the aluminum one?

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