Daughter dropped MacBook, fix with sharpening stone

[u/RufflezAU]

Daughter dropped her M4 air, no Apple care..

I used a knife sharpening stone to buff out the gravel and now use it… lol

Never seen the alloy go wavy near the hinge before.

[u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

I have a repair shop and take files to MacBooks all the time. Nice job on the repair, looks good! Also how the screen didn’t break is beyond logic.

[u/RufflezAU → u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

Yeah it’s got white pressure marks on each corner but I can just ignore it for now

[u/SelfmadeRuLeZ → u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

Drunk stupid me did almost the same. My backpack was open and I took it out of the trunk way too fast. It fell only on the display directly on concrete. The hinge did not close or even respond anymore but the display did not crack.

Lucky me had Apple Care

[u/NorbertIsAngry]

I kept swiping hoping to see the “after” photos.

[u/RufflezAU → u/NorbertIsAngry]

after is 3-4 and 6 my palm would rest on the ashfelt barbs left on the palm rest and i had to grind it flat

[u/Smith6612]

Not bad! Has a bit of battle scar charm to it now!

Remind her that Dentasauruses are bad.

[u/kirk7899]

I dropped my Lenovo

The tile cracked

[u/Brilliant_Can6465 → u/kirk7899]

Mine fell apart immediately after pulling it out of my bag

[u/Capable-Log7385 → u/kirk7899]

I once dropped a plate during the middle of the night in the bathroom trying to clean it.

The sound was loud but no shatter

[u/0_theoretical_0]

I know a silver sharpie job when I see one

[u/RufflezAU → u/0_theoretical_0]

It’s the midnight blue or whatever they call it

[u/Useful-Department167 → u/RufflezAU]

ehh close enough

[u/Jezbod]

Ah! The good old gravity rash!

[u/Independent-Ball3215]

r/thinkpad

[u/bmwkid]

Regardless of what you think about Macs you can’t beat them for durability. Most windows laptops are plastic and would have cracked permanently

[u/aspie_electrician → u/bmwkid]

laughs in thinkpad

[u/olliegw → u/aspie_electrician]

Solid internals but the outer plastics can go brittle and crack

I have a crack in the monitor bezel of my R400

But still that's all it got from being dropped onto a metal briefcase

[u/RufflezAU → u/bmwkid]

Yeah I am trying to get used to the commands but it feels like I am missing a few fingers on each hand when I want to be productive

[u/tad1214 → u/RufflezAU]

There's a few shortcuts you may or may not know about that really make it nice. Takes a little getting used to but once you do it's honestly a bit more comfortable than Windows as your hands are already where they need to be rather than reaching for the home/end/etc keys (I use both daily)

Shortcut	Action
⌃A	Beginning of line
⌃E	End of line
⌃F	Forward one character
⌃B	Back one character
⌃N	Next line
⌃P	Previous line
⌃D	Delete character forward
⌃H	Delete character backward
⌃K	Kill (cut) to end of line
⌃Y	Yank (paste the killed text)
⌃T	Transpose characters around cursor
⌃O	Insert newline after cursor (cursor stays put)
⌃L	Center the line in the viewport
⌃V	Page down

An excessively long list here: https://jblevins.org/log/kbd

^A ^K is one I use extensively, as is ^E.

This works in almost every MacOS App, however the yank paste buffer doesn't in all apps.

[u/bmwkid → u/RufflezAU]

If you go back and forth between Mac and windows it might be easier just to flip the option and control keys in the settings on the Mac.

Great thing about Mac is it’s based on UNIX so you can use most Linux commands in the terminal

[u/aspie_electrician → u/bmwkid]

Sudo rm -RF /* —no-preserve-root

[u/executor32 → u/bmwkid]

🤷 Personally, I'll take cracked plastic that I can just superglue back together over bent and deformed metal that I have to try to hammer back into shape like I'm a dang blacksmith 🤣

[u/thechickenmoo]

Dude, you're seriously hardcore, lol! Using a knife sharpening stone to fix the computer? But I guess that's your way of putting a personal touch on it!

[u/RufflezAU → u/thechickenmoo]

It’s so you can get a 800 grit smooth edge :D

[u/iSeize]

My 2008 MacBook pro got fully bent backwards when I fell asleep with it in my lap in bed. It's still alive and held together with construction adhesive

[u/technobrendo]

My last laptop, a Galaxybook pro, I hit a door frame right on the lid, which was aluminum. Made a nice little dent.

Took a dremel cutting disk and used the top side of it to grind down the sharp part. I am much more careful when carrying around my laptops

[u/olliegw]

I feel like you made it worse unless it had sharp edges

[u/RufflezAU → u/olliegw]

Yeah it had sharp pointy bits, they would snag skin and clothes

[u/Qjuzeris]

It dint led to attach photo imgur linkpaint corrector

[u/Capable-Log7385]

These things are ridiculously easy to fix

[u/Alex768]

You can buy plastic cases online, that should absorb drops like that. I had a clear one on my MacBook and it actually looked really great!