TUAW: What’s the opposite of flamebait? It’s when your PowerBook really does catch fire and nearly kills you–and you write a love letter like Jimm Lasser did. After his PowerBook burst into flames, he didn’t lash out at Apple. He grew to love them even more. He writes, “a Mac almost killed me, and I came out of the whole experience feeling more strongly about Apple as a company.” TUAW rejoices that Lasser survived and has been able to move on from the whole experience, but reiterates that this kind of bonding, consumer-trust-enhancing experience is not typical.
Maybe TUAW is guilty of taking the guy’s comments out of context, but as their post is presented in its entirely, I have to say that this guy is a fuckin’ idiot, as it’s posted. I’m sorry, but notebooks bursting into flames [under normal use] is an unacceptable event. If that notebook was on a lap, it burns badly; in a computer bag, it could start a massive fire. So why would you feel more strongly about Apple? Because it was a metal notebook? Because the notebook that caught fire looked pretty? I’m sorry, but whichever company is at fault for this – be it notebook or battery – it should never be praised for it, much less forgiven.
Ever.
Ive seen videos of Dell and HP laptops bursting in to flames as well, everyone seems to think its ok to ignore cooling the damn things and just concentrate on making them smaller. Kinda like the 360, yea, it looks smaller and nicer than the first Xbox, but they are bricking left and right cause they aren’t cooling them well enough to save space. Hence why my PC is fucking humongous and has about 11 fans in it, it might sound like a jet trying to take off, but my parts are nice and cool and aren’t going to burn down the house.
Wow. I didn’t know you worked on the 360 line too. Whoo!
I think it’s funny when you see stories like this, they treat Apple like it some kind of communal living, everything is for the customer, lets do the right thing kind of experience.
They are a major corporation needing to make their shareholders happy. period. These tree huggers have to realize that.