alt Hacker NewsThanks for this interesting post - I've been showing it to co-workers to get their reactions, which was incredibly entertaining for me!
Co-worker 1: Interesting. I wonder if that voids the warranty. It's Apple you know.
Co-worker 2: May Jobs have mercy on their soul...
Co-worker 3: Not a bad idea. But not sure if that would cause problems with structural integrity of the laptop, like if you drop it or something.
Co-worker 4: The only downside I see is that you can no longer say "Hey, that's a sharp-looking laptop!"
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It's a work laptop - I'm surprised none of the coworkers said "you'll get in trouble when you return it".
I don't know WHY... But corporate bureaucracies have logic of their own.
I’d suggest if you are going to do this to your MacBooks to get the silver one. The silver one is actually aluminum and no one would notice.
> The only downside I see is that you can no longer say "Hey, that's a sharp-looking laptop!"
When this line of MacBooks first came out in 2021 and I bought one (I desperately needed an upgrade), I was joking that it's top-notch hardware.
The slight groove that was there on the middle of the base which allowed you to stick your finger to open the top had sharp corners that poked my wrists and i filed them both off on the first, and only, macbook I used in 2014 or so m
I am actually encouraged to try this now. Gotta check if they allow it. Sharp edges are really annoying on this machine.
Luckily I use it like a desktop 95percent of the time.
Here’s one: scratches are officially not an argument anymore for a price discount on a second hand Mac.
Drop them like it’s hot!
Now I gotta hear these four coworkers' opinions on other things
I love the line “People like to freak out about this, so I wanted to post it here to make sure that everyone who wants to freak out about it gets the opportunity to do so.”
All of the reactions are valid, including the 2nd one if that's a sarcasm.
I think the main problem is that you lose the surface anodization and might end up with a more frail surface there (surface, the structural integrity is going to suffer but not much I guess)
C1: Homo-economicus
C2: Homo-religious
C3: Homo-enginerus
C4: Homo-bros
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Co-worker 4 is the one I want to have a beer with.