I presume it's the crappy Mac name for a motherboard.
See, I've taken my laptop through the airport loads, and all sorts of other abuses, and it's never broken.
Admittedly I had to reconnect the DVD drive myself after my sister pushed it off the table, but otherwise it's been fine.

it is.
i fly 12 times a year. i am willing to bet mine has been exposed to more horible airport security checks than yours.
i wouldnt try that. i would break it.

Althogether, I suck with taking apart laptops and putting them back together. I'm good with programs, but other then that don't ask.

I fly loads and always take my laptop and it has yet to break and it was so crap to begin with i am surprised it hasn't broken yet

Fair enough, I probably only manage eight or ten times a year on average. I doubt an extra few flights a year would cause the motherboard to spontaneously break, though.
Oh, and my laptop isn't banned from use on any airlines, either...


I agree, laptops are a pain to take apart. Not like desktops which are nice and spacious and simple.


Your laptop has crap specs, Nate, but it's not crap build quality like Macs.

Laptops are stupid. A Desktop has way better performance for cost and takes less maintenance and is less of a headache.

Sentynel wrote: Fair enough, I probably only manage eight or ten times a year on average. I doubt an extra few flights a year would cause the motherboard to spontaneously break, though.
Oh, and my laptop isn't banned from use on any airlines, either...


I agree, laptops are a pain to take apart. Not like desktops which are nice and spacious and simple.


Your laptop has crap specs, Nate, but it's not crap build quality like Macs.

see. i have 2 more times than you. and i fly 'a la cheap'
mine isnt banned. the battery in mine is fine. i checked it.

my laptop isnt actually hard to take apart. you just pry of the back and everything is in neat boxes. Unlike the dell i am using. i looked at the bottom and it is all weird stuff that you need nails/a crow (sp) bar to open.

macs are not crap build.

Various airlines have put a blanket ban on laptops from certain manufacturers - Apple and Dell for starters, and anyone else with problems with the batteries. Never mind whether the batteries are "fine" or not, they're still banned.

Just because it's in "neat boxes" doesn't mean you can actually do anything with them.

If Macs aren't crap build, then why did the motherboard break? Hmm?



See, Post, the problem with your logic is that you've missed the point of a laptop completely: you can move it around easily, use it when you're travelling, etc.

virgin *twitch* yeah, but you can put in in check in luggage. 'hmm...batteries are blowing up, so lets put them in the hold were no one can see them.' idiots.

sure you can, although all i've done is added some memory

it isnt a motherboard.


i have a toshiba laptop upstairs that is bigger than some desktops.

I can put desktops back together, but laptops are too small and bunched together.

wrote:See, Post, the problem with your logic is that you've missed the point of a laptop completely: you can move it around easily, use it when you're travelling, etc.

Still fails. The niche can be filled by lots of things, Notebooks, Blackberries and even some mobiles. A desktop owns the laptop in almost everything.

wrote:i have a toshiba laptop upstairs that is bigger than some desktops.

Not possible.

They only blow up when they're in use, Abel...

Every laptop I've seen has a neat hatch in the bottom or something similar for changing memory and hard drives. Doesn't mean the rest of it is tidy and/or accessible.

Sorry, sorry, logic board. It does exactly the same thing!

...well then why dont they say 'dont use on the flight' instead of making people entrust them to bagage handelers

i am using a dell latitude d600. bottom is terrible.

but has a different name :P

post, it is about 3 inchs thick, i am sure there are thinner desktops.

I took apart a windows laptop once.

It was never put back together.

Poor thing.

Not really.

Briefcase sized... Most Desktops have a big CPU case you know.

All my desktops are 95 and 98 (Windows) useless crap.

Eww...I had a Windows 95. It was so annoying, I couldn't delete files.

Post wrote:

wrote:See, Post, the problem with your logic is that you've missed the point of a laptop completely: you can move it around easily, use it when you're travelling, etc.

Still fails. The niche can be filled by lots of things, Notebooks, Blackberries and even some mobiles. A desktop owns the laptop in almost everything.

Notebook is another name for laptop. Blackberries and mobiles are very limited.



It's easier just to ban people from taking them on the flight than to try and watch the whole aircraft for people turning on laptops they're not allowed to use.



I liked Windows 95. Nice and simple, nice and stable and it had a proper version of DOS.

its not that hard. the number of times they go up and down with those bloody food trollies. bah. NEVER stick your elbow/head/anyotherpart out the side. those metal things hurt.

no, nothing runs on them anymore. i have 98 on the brick and i cant even get that to connect to the internet (wireless)

Abel wrote: its not that hard. the number of times they go up and down with those bloody food trollies. bah. NEVER stick your elbow/head/anyotherpart out the side. those metal things hurt.

They're metal. What did you expect?

I tried using those internet CDs, but they stopped working.