Angry MacBook Air owner takes kitchen knife to laptop

Some of us take out second mortgages to make ends meet. Some of us toil away at menial jobs to weather the economic crisis. Others stab their $1,800 MacBook Air with a kitchen knife because it has a broken hinge. Who are we to say what's right and wrong?

According to the resourceful genius in this video, he, as well as six of his friends who also own MacBook Airs, have all experienced issues with a broken hinge that attaches the monitor to the body. This defect also apparently gives one a bloodthirsty urge to repeatedly stab their MacBook Air in the display with a kitchen knife. On camera.

To add insult to injury, he recommends that we buy a Lenovo x300 laptop instead of a Mac. Uh huh. We have one question to ask: is it kitchen knife-proof?

I'm personally surprised it took three stabs to crack the screen. That's gotta be some sort of testament to Apple's build quality, right? And amazingly the MacBook didn't explode in his face, electrocute him, or shoot hazardous LCD goo into his eyes. Well, it would have made for a more interesting video, anyway.

[via Macenstein]

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Dan said on Friday, 01 May 2009

What a moron! My MacBook Air rocks!! No issues with hinges.

Tim said on Saturday, 02 May 2009

idiot

Kadoogan said on Monday, 04 May 2009

All six friends had issues with the hinge? I really doubt that. If the problem were that common we'd have heard about way before now.

I'm always puzzled when people moan that they are buying another brand. I have complained about Apple at times, especially with pricing, but if my MacBook Pro needed replacing right now, I'd still buy Apple, because anything else would mean going back to Windows. The money saved just doesn't justify that.

Bob Caygeon said on Monday, 04 May 2009

Nice, calm, rational, adult response then, not some idiot with far more dollars than brain cells.

Peter said on Tuesday, 05 May 2009

Someone forgot to get the Applecare extended warranty. They'd have fixed it for free (probably).

Chris Lowrey said on Tuesday, 05 May 2009

This idiot is better off on the windows platform, we don't need people like that!

drumhum said on Tuesday, 05 May 2009

What a complete moron.

Its not "a mac thing", its a consumer(ist) thing. Buy, throw away, buy, throw away. Oh that is so cool.