cinderblock Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Hi, I'm new to macs (and laptops) and recently bought a Macbook Pro. I'm absolutely loving everything about the laptop and mac OS, however, I have a quick and very embarrasing question/confession. I was using boot camp to install XP, and during the format procedure the laptop got knocked off its table onto the carpet floor ~3' below (my dumb self had it on a 3 legged night stand next to the bed, and the unthinkably obvious occurred). At first I was absolutely horrified and was certain I had ruined the harddisk,if anything (the accident happened mid-formatting after all), however, it kept on trucking as if nothing had happened. In tears , I finished installing xp and the apple drivers and then immediately ran back to OSX to do a full check of the hard drive with the disk doctor (or whatever it was called) utility. the utility found no errors and everything seemed to be fine.. My question, was I spared by the Gods? or is this machine truly as durable as it appears, and what other utilities or precautions should I consider to make sure everything is still working..keep in mind I've never owned a laptop and do not know how resilient they are/can be. The only thing I've noticed since 'the accident' is: I was downloading a giant file (in xp) and noticed the hard disk made a barely audible high pitched noise as it worked, not constanly, but off and on. For all I know, it had always done that. Anyway, thanks for reading and hello to everyone from a newbie! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53687-new-to-mac-quick-macbook-pro-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
four! Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Apple has always made very durable laptops. Just the other day a bottle of sprite went all over the keyboard of my iBook and it was fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53687-new-to-mac-quick-macbook-pro-question/#findComment-382881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinderblock Posted June 12, 2007 Author Share Posted June 12, 2007 good to hear^^ thanks for the reply. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53687-new-to-mac-quick-macbook-pro-question/#findComment-382895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
four! Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 glad to be of assistance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53687-new-to-mac-quick-macbook-pro-question/#findComment-382917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 The main reason your HDD survived is because of a little thing called "Suddon Motion Sensor". This thing detects any kind of movement (on a three axis system) of your MBP and parks the heads of your HDD in case of a collision. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor Cheers, hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53687-new-to-mac-quick-macbook-pro-question/#findComment-382924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinderblock Posted June 12, 2007 Author Share Posted June 12, 2007 wow, very interesting. and, yay apple! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53687-new-to-mac-quick-macbook-pro-question/#findComment-382945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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