Left, a Sport Cruiser aircraft of the same type; right, the MacBook Air after the fall
Posted on 02/10/2015 2:41:59 PM PST by Swordmaker
A South African pilot appears to have taken the name of his MacBook Air a little too literally, managing to drop it from the light aircraft he was flying when the canopy flew open. The MacBook, along with his flying license and logbook, fell 1000 feet into the fields below–but amazingly survived the experience.
Admittedly it didn’t emerge entirely unscathed. Pilot and Reddit user Av80r reports that the unibody casing was bent, the glass trackpad shattered and the cooling fans were damaged, but the screen remained intact and the MacBook continues to work …
The MacBook was found by a farmer, along with with the pilot’s paperwork, which enabled the farmer to make contact via Facebook in order to arrange to return the items. Check out the other photos below.
Blueberry iMac G3? I have a few of those (I collect vintage machines). Mine still connect to wi-fi Internet, but don’t run a lot of the newer stuff and videos. They’re dual-boot OS9 or OSX. They’re pretty machines but they’re heavy and huge - like all 1990s stuff. Apple started selling machines without DVD slots a few years ago, slots are sort of useless now.
I know it isn’t. But A.M.D. beat Intel to the punch—remember the fiasco that was Itanium? Never really took off.
Modern AMD and Intel chips implement AMD64—Intel’s is slightly different, they call it EM64T.
The only way to improve that story is if the Air had crushed Michael Moore’s or Al Gore’s skull on impact.
To the degree of pain I’ve suffered as of late and the amount of medication to quench such pain, I must admit that I’ve only verified my range to target as in [me-to-mattress], and the physics equation to such action unfortunately escaped me, as well as applying such equations to anything else I managed to do yesterday.
*sigh*
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