what is the worst thing you have ever done to your mac?

[thegreatluke]

My brother once took my Sawtooth (which was sitting on my desk against the wall) and he opened the side really quickly and dented up the outside case.

I made him clean it and most of the marks came out, but there are still noticable scratches.

Fortunately the Sawtooth is retired now (it's basically dead - won't display on monitors any more, though it still powers up fine. It's something to do with the power supply and it's not worth fixing) and I'm getting a MacBook Pro.

Needless to say, I'm not letting him touch the MacBook Pro without supervision.

 

[MinorBidoh]

girlfriend deleted itunes libary.... sigh

 

[CoMpX]

girlfriend deleted itunes libary.... sigh

Ooooooh that's gotta hurt. Were you able to recover the songs from your iPod using 3rd party software?

 

[Glenn Wolsey]

Touched the screen

I love my Mac.

 

[lucface]

girlfriend deleted itunes libary.... sigh

yah, ouch. sorry dude.

 

[munkees]

Combat Mac

Took my iBook to war, it rode around in the dust and smoke, inside my tank, played dvds, load photo from the camera, and it is still alive and kicking. In fact it love the adventure

 

[Laser47]

Took my iBook to war, it rode around in the dust and smoke, inside my tank, played dvds, load photo from the camera, and it is still alive and kicking. In fact it love the adventure

Wow, I guess that shows you how durable the ibook really is.

 

[Orlando Furioso]

My best friend spilled tea on my Pismo. After getting as much of the liquid out as I could, it was left sunbathing to finish drying out.

On another occasion, I tripped on the plugged-in power cord causing it to fall four feet. The power-plug bit/end hit first. It's full weight vs. the ground dislocated/broke the PMU. It could only run on battery after that, even though it could still tell when it was plugged in (the battery still would not charge). SF Apple Store fixed it up all nice.

It is happily running Tiger and CS like a charm.

 

[macgeek2005]

I am proud to say I haven't done anything bad to my mac. Although when I was younger (10ish) I was famous in my family for being able to kill any mac I got my hands on. I did it to the Macintosh Plus, the SE, the SE/30, then a PowerComputing machine, and then to a 350mhz g4 tower.

I would always manage to do something that would get it to quit working. Not intentionally. I NEVER intentionally killed a computer. But usually somehow or other, after I was through with it, it wouldn't see the hard drive, or something of that sort.

My dad told me I should go and get a job crashing computers for apple. (They do need people to crash their computers so that they know what to fix right?)

I frankly don't understand how somebody can do something like trip on the power cord.... but... that's just me!

 

[MarkCollette]

I slightly tripped on my iBook's power cord. It didn't fall, but a piece of metal in the power cord's connector bent. I just bent it back, and it was fine.

TODAY, I spilled water on my iBook. Water was running down the right side of the screen, pooling on the power cord, going into the right speaker... I immediately pressed the button to get it to shutdown. After it shutdown I removed the power cord, and dried it all off. I removed the keyboard, and dried out the few droplets in there. I'll let it dry for the next day or so. I had it closed for a couple hours, but now it's partially open and upside-down.

 

[mpq]

Installed Windows Media Player.

 

[CoMpX]

Installed Windows Media Player.

That'll do it.

 

[big]

Placed new laptop behind truck seat (old style, no rear seating), sat on bench and the book just made a glass crunching sound as the screen shattered from being compressed. Everything else works fine, I just haven't been brave enough to take the lid off myself to replace the screen....

 

[seh80]

It actually happened tonight. I had my iBook on a tall tv tray, with a can of soda, my watch, cell, & tv remote.

I was trying to tidy up the cords under my desk, and somehow managed to push my chair right into the tray, which sent it flying. So everything fell about 2.5 feet, and got a shower of Diet Dr Pepper.
The iBook got the worst of it.

It seems to have forgiven me, was happy to have the soda cleaned off, time will tell.

 

[macgeek2005]

girlfriend deleted itunes libary.... sigh

did she do it on purpose?

 

[andrewag]

Ran over my 12" PowerBook once. :'(

 

[iBlue]

in the "extreme setups" thread i took pictures of my powerbook on the toilet, on my dirtbike and on my son's tricycle. i told my powerbook i hated it recently for having an issue, it is still giving me the "silent treatment"... but that's ok, i'm a cheater and i just love on my iMac instead.

 

[FFTT]

I was adding my new 250 GB Seagate to my G5 tower and had to build
from Panther because my G5 came with the Tiger Upgrade drop in disc.

After installing Panther, I repaired permissions on the new Seagate and Verified the new volume.

Then, in a moment of sheer stupidity, I decide to verify my original drive
which was already up to Tiger 10.4.2 completely forgetting that I was still
using the Panther CD.

Of course the volume check found errors, so in a continued episode of sheer stupidity, I hit the Repair Volume button completely fragging my Tiger volume with all my data on the original drive.

I tried to use the Tiger upgrade disc to repair the damage but the Tiger Volume would not mount, so I was screwed.

The Panther CD Disc Repair had totally scrambled the Tiger Volume.

Thank goodness for Data Rescue II and Disk Warrior.

Now I keep a copy of Data Rescue II and Disk Warrior on both drives.

 

[kretzy]

I dropped mine and it landed on the power charger

 

[MinorBidoh]

did she do it on purpose?

still not quite sure about whether it was on purpose but it wasnt a good day. just used 3rd party to rip ipod. and have subsequently ripped another 3ipods, somehow i just end up having to.

still with the girl though.

 

[lucface]

Ran over my 12" PowerBook once. :'(

dam. what was your computer doing in the driveway? or were ever

 

[Psycho Therapis]

Spilt milk on my Mac Mini (or rather, threw Milk all over it accidentally, not realising that the glass was in my hand). Luckily I reacted fast, pulled out the power cable and dried it off. Due to my quick reaction, none of the milk got inside. I then removed the case and cleaned the milk stains off it and it was back looking as good as new again.

Also, punched my Beige G3 Power Mac so hard that it killed the hard drive. It was really annoying me and no matter what I did to solve the problem, it just wouldn't work right, so my violence was just!

I wouldn't dare mistreat my G5 PowerMac, though, since I really can't afford to damage something so expensive. It's treated with more care than anything I've ever owned.

 

[Marky_Mark]

One day my Insurance company will give up and give me a PowerBook Duo*.




*The correct name for the MacBook Pro.

Like it or not, this is a PowerBook Duo:

 

[AUBPsych]

Worst thing I've ever done to a Mac: Neglected to buy one!!! It's coming soon though...

Ditto.

 

[nxent]

worst thing i ever did? install windows xp on it. hahahahahha