MacBook gets MacBaked
I’ve always found Apple’s laptops to run fairly warm and never felt the need to pre-heat mine, however a certain “Mr. Kidd” apparently felt otherwise.
“Here’s a fun one. My buddy Kidd left his laptop in his oven while away - you know, in case of break-in or fire, it’d be safe. We’re all over after grabbing him from the airport, ready to bake some cookies. Preheat the oven to 375, start mixing the ingredients, about ten minutes later, we notice a pretty awful smell. Open the oven door and, surreally enough, there’s a laptop and a backup harddrive staring me in the face.
The cookies, however, were great.”
Well, while the melting is certainly a tragedy, it IS nice to finally see an Apple product burst into flames via user error for once.
[via Flickr]
August 26th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
The big questions is, did it boot up?
August 26th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
i hate to be the one to state the obvious doc… but that is a mbp.
someone had to… right?
August 26th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
DAMN IT!
Thanks oh no.
-The Doc
August 26th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
That is just a dumb enough move that I could see myself doing that. That’s okay though its about time to upgrade to a new macbook refresh anyway
August 26th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
It seems people do this fairly often. iBook in oven.
What possesses people to keep things in their oven? Isn’t there a cleaner, safer, yet still hidden place to keep a laptop?
August 26th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
“It seems people do this fairly often. iBook in oven.
What possesses people to keep things in their oven? Isn’t there a cleaner, safer, yet still hidden place to keep a laptop?”
And it still boots up!!!! Hmmmm, I wonder if my iBook will do the same.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
oh god, the humanity..
err computer’ity
August 26th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I bet in a week or two there will be a guy whose work is to melt stuff. (Kinda like Will it blend!)
would’n it be super fun?
But you know this ain’t completely stupid.
If I’m going to another country, I BRING the mbp with me. If I really can’t, I leave it in the safe. If I don’t have a safe… then well… I leave it in the freaking oven. robbers will NEVER look there, and neither will curious people who have the key hahaha
and this, obviously, excludes the possibility of leaving a note in the oven’s door or telling your friends about it.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Apple actually paid them off to say this. In actuality this happened at 20,000 feet.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:02 am
You know, with lawsuits as they are today, he could have a case here. Nowhere on my oven does it say to NOT put your laptop computer in for safety/security. Neither the dog, my 1 year old, the telephone, neighbor’s cat, my fireworks collection. Nowhere am I warned of the “you might be a dumb-ass and turn on your oven before removing such item”. Find an ambulance chaser quick!!!
August 27th, 2008 at 11:54 am
I guess he’s never seen “The Unsinkdable Molly Brown”, or “Titanic”. Oh, the cultural ignorance of Today’s Youth.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Next time he’ll leave it in the refrigerator.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:18 am
who would have cookies after a tragedy such as this