Hello everyone.. i know my title may seem really sad, but its not as bad as it sound. MY macbook DOES in fact still work, and DOES seem to be fine. Here is the story, and I'll get to my question in a bit.
So, I was playing my Nintendo Wii, and Chatting on Adium with my Macbook, so as I quickly paused the game I'd go and reply to my friends then I'd return back to my game. Anyways, the way i was sitting and had my macbook positioned was, my macbook was only 3/4 on my desk, and the other quarter was sticking off the end. I thought, whatever that should be fine...
Well, as i went and paused my game to reply on Adium I somehow bumped my macbook, nd well yeah it fell from my desk and onto my hardwood flooring. (I'd like to make it clear it DID not land on carpet) Good news is, it didnt fall at full speed because I managed to sorta catch it as it was falling, so I slowed down its fall quite a bit I think, but it still hit the floor hard/loud enouh to make my dog bark. >.<
So I swore out loud and picked my macbook up, and looked it appeared to still be working... only problem was the whole system was locked up with the pinwheel of death. At this point i was scared I ****ed my harddrive up >.<
I force my computer to shutdown, and start back up... it was an unusually slow start-up... and trust me I'd never been sooo nervous during the spinning gear at the start up before in my entire life... I was like pacin back and forth through my room, sweating, praying, and kicking myself.
FINALLY my macbook starts up fine... FIRST thing i do is, use Onyx to run a S.M.A.R.T disk anylisis. After that it says my disks seem to be perfectly fine. Thank god for that I can whipe some sweat off now, but im still concerned, since this incident my macbook has fealt slow... or at least slower then usual. I do the only thing i know to do, I restarted my mac.
Upon restart its back to how it was before it was dropped once again THANK GOD.
Now heres my question
Should I be concerned more?... Or does it seem like my macbook will be fine? I may have shortned my macbooks life by a couple months... but this macbook is only 6 months old, so it's inevitable death shouldn't be for AT LEAST 3-5 years.
Anyone else had experience like this one before? Also, how durable are macbooks generally? Did I just get REALLY lucky by not having my macbook break, or are macbooks built to take a drop or two?
So, I was playing my Nintendo Wii, and Chatting on Adium with my Macbook, so as I quickly paused the game I'd go and reply to my friends then I'd return back to my game. Anyways, the way i was sitting and had my macbook positioned was, my macbook was only 3/4 on my desk, and the other quarter was sticking off the end. I thought, whatever that should be fine...
Well, as i went and paused my game to reply on Adium I somehow bumped my macbook, nd well yeah it fell from my desk and onto my hardwood flooring. (I'd like to make it clear it DID not land on carpet) Good news is, it didnt fall at full speed because I managed to sorta catch it as it was falling, so I slowed down its fall quite a bit I think, but it still hit the floor hard/loud enouh to make my dog bark. >.<
So I swore out loud and picked my macbook up, and looked it appeared to still be working... only problem was the whole system was locked up with the pinwheel of death. At this point i was scared I ****ed my harddrive up >.<
I force my computer to shutdown, and start back up... it was an unusually slow start-up... and trust me I'd never been sooo nervous during the spinning gear at the start up before in my entire life... I was like pacin back and forth through my room, sweating, praying, and kicking myself.
FINALLY my macbook starts up fine... FIRST thing i do is, use Onyx to run a S.M.A.R.T disk anylisis. After that it says my disks seem to be perfectly fine. Thank god for that I can whipe some sweat off now, but im still concerned, since this incident my macbook has fealt slow... or at least slower then usual. I do the only thing i know to do, I restarted my mac.
Upon restart its back to how it was before it was dropped once again THANK GOD.
Now heres my question
Should I be concerned more?... Or does it seem like my macbook will be fine? I may have shortned my macbooks life by a couple months... but this macbook is only 6 months old, so it's inevitable death shouldn't be for AT LEAST 3-5 years.
Anyone else had experience like this one before? Also, how durable are macbooks generally? Did I just get REALLY lucky by not having my macbook break, or are macbooks built to take a drop or two?
