Disgusted! Dent...buy antother or wait...

[sarcasticdesign]

Wow A lot of people need to let the OP do what they want and need to quit extrapolating so much from this. so they want to get rid of it to a family member, it's theirs.

I understand the want of a new one. May not agree with it, by that's my set of standard and more importantly my bank account. People are different.

Lucky family, I would secretly dent your car if I was your son at 16.

Good luck op with the next one.

in the midst of a crumbling economy, a person posting on a forum and bragging about a gross overreaction that will set her whole family back $1699. This is exactly the reason this country is screwed economically. because people fritter their money away, simply because they can make more and if they cannot, they can just maxx out the plastic.

i've been on shoots at these mcmansion suburban crap houses that cost 3x what they should. i've talked to guys there who are making $15-$20/hr. HOnest living. Wife. 3 Kids. And they are PUSHED into moving into this area by their wives because of the "school district" or "its the up and coming neighborhood"

these are families that, combined MIGHT barely tough $80-100,000 combined income, and the pressure on them to buy a shoddily built $400,000 mcmansion is shocking.

This isn't that far off. Americans ≠ the concept of humility.

Edit: Also interesting to me is that you can deem them a lucky family because they can apparently buy and replace tech items with no restraint? I'd say that's a poor family that has their priorities misplaced on inanimate objects.

 

[georgina.carr]

I'm going to be nice to this woman, because hey if i could i would have had new laptops several times in the past couple of years.
My current iBook G4 has a bent screen, no letters on the keyboard through over use and a little crack on the palm rest, it still runs panther, its had a new logic board and gotten cd's stuck in the drive so many times I've lost count, yet my insurers never replaced it with a new model (As you can imagine, i can't wait until next week when i will *hopefully* be getting a new one)
If i could have afforded to, i would have changed it straight after the screen bent, even though from what i could tell it still worked fine (which surprised me enormously) but i can remember when i dropped it, and it was more the idea that it might break more easily in the future that made me consider getting a new one. I'm not sure if this is maybe one of your reasons too, but I'm imagining your sons would only use it for the internet and things like my younger sister does, and i would have given mine to her, because it doesn't matter if she causes it more damage as she is only using it for browsing, where as i have a dissertation to work on! So i guess what I'm saying in a roundabout way is that i sort of understand your logic, If it has that damage, then it might get more damaged in the future and you might not want to risk that happening with your important files!!! I certainly have been dreading losing my work for about 2 years!
I also understand your debate about whether to just go get a new one now or wait, i was in the same boat about a macbook so i reallllly hope there are new updates next week, My student loan came through and i was all geared to go get a new one and then i saw the rumors!! I personally have a dilemma in that I'm worried about dents and things in the rumored aluminium casing, so I'm not sure whether to buy or not. Basically i set myself a date when i cant really wait for a new one any more, and if they aren't released by then i will settle for the current model, so i hope this helps you decide whether to take the plunge or not! If you wait like i am, to kill the time i am instead buying a couple of accessories for when i get the new one, makes the few weeks its been go quicker
I hope that when the new one comes out you enjoy it and that your kids love their new computer too!

p.s. I personally don't mind being called hun, it's not offensive so maybe we shouldn't be as harsh about it?

 

[Sesshi]

Some 'interesting' discussion so far.

If my Air was more or less for work - as it used to be, before I fully realised just what a piece of crap it was - I would replace it if it had a major blemish such as a dent. I've replaced a number of Bendybook Pros for cosmetic reasons in the last two years, which have either been passed to others not using them in a public-facing mode, sold, or given away.

In a domestic setting? Hmmm... What with Apple being the 'Chattering soccer mom with a need to display status's computer of choice', I think you can expect a fair bit of talk like this. It's not entirely unwarranted, as many of these buyers will probably choose Apple based on how it looks more than anything else.