A guy from Denmark apparently hated his MacBook Air so much he decided to beat the s!@# out of it and utterly destroy it with a knife. Why all the violence? Because the Air had a broken hinge. Unless we’re missing something, this looks to be completely legit. I wonder if it’ll still fit inside a manilla envelope?
A few days ago we contacted the poster of the video with a few questions (i.e What the hell are you doing?!), and as luck would have it, he responded:
The hinge did not only start to come off. What you may not have noticed in the video is that the screen is resting on a can that stands behind it. The screen couldn’t stay upright without something behind it. I actually used it in that state for a couple of weeks, while desperately trying to get Apple to repair it. But they wouldn’t. I’ve been an apple EVANGELIST for YEARS, and have converted many people into mac-buyers. But this is just too far out.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
what an idiot ! probably a rich kid that never worked in his whole life….
April 30th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
What a dimwit! I thought it was kind of funny how I could read exactly what he wrote on beautifully displayed screen on the laptop he destroyed and I could hardly read from the second laptops screen that was a flicker monster compared to the first one.
April 30th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I think this guy calls IBM and get his ibm laptop for free if he is killing a macbook Air with video to prove it and show it to the internet.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Wow, I wish I had such dough that I could smash a several grand laptop just because of a bad hinge. I guess if his car breaks he smashes it as well??
May 1st, 2009 at 2:00 am
Notice the stark degradation in screen performance in the video – the IBM is blotchy and flickers like crazy compaed to the Macbook.
May 1st, 2009 at 9:15 am
Ohhh my God!! He is swimming in money!!!!!!!!!!!
But let´s just be honest, the IBM is a rock, but looks like one too!!!
May 1st, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Chill guys…he only broke the monitor…probably figured he was gonna replace it anyway cuz of the hinge…although the pounding was a bit unnecessary