ModYourMac has the story of a rather amazing Apple iMac G5:
Modding with Fire
Notice that this Mac isn’t pristine white. Its yellow. Its black. Its gray and sooty. The plastic have [sic] bubbled and started to melt. Yes, that’s right. This Mac was caught in a fire! I came into work this morning, and this machine had somehow made it into our possession, post-customer. The shop folks were getting a good look at it, since Mac techs always enjoy a look at the extreme destruction that can befall one of MotherShip’s fine machines. Of course, with this unit’s life cycle ended, the guys just opted to leave it for the recycling pile.
I couldn’t let it go though. We can only imagine what this machine saw. How the room around it went up in flames. How, sitting on its desk, it was engulfed in an inferno and managed to still be upright. This machine had obviously made it through a baptism of fire, literally. But how well had it survived? I had to know.
Would this horribly thrashed and discarded machine, who sacrificed all to protect it’s hard drive, power on? And if it did power on, would it boot up? Yes. I had to know.
I went ahead and set the unit up on its own surge protector, just in case. I hooked up a keyboard, mouse, power and ethernet. The usual basics. Then, while compressing the warped back plate assembly, I pressed in the power button. I caught the sound of a fan spinning, a scent of burnt plastic, smoke and ash. Then, the unit elicited the famous Mac startup chime…
More, including many photos, in the full article here.
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Baby, won’t you light my fire?!
I’ve noticed a scratch on the screen… and it’s not a glossy one!
That’s hawt.
Now that all the new iMacs have built in iSight cameras, the next one will be able to post the fire straight to YouTube!
But is it more or less impressive than the iPhone run over by the truck?
I wonder how this happened?
Maybe it was riding on a plane next to a Dell laptop…
@MDN. The plastic have bubbled and started to melt.
Write in English please.
Sorry, @modyourmac.com
Sorry, AMPAR
I can’t comment on your post comment.
What are the odds we get this to the 4 plus pages (a la Rush comments)?
To Bluefin: “4 plus pages”
You can spark a new flame war if you can prove that that iMac deserved to burn because it’s a glossy liberal that just contributed to global warming.
OK… here’s my attempt:
Clearly, it was a hotbed of liberalism.
Cooler heads with a fair and balanced view aren’t “flaming”
(How my doin’ so far?)
Will somebody tell the author of the story that the damn Mac is not a living thing. Sheesh….I mean I love my Mac and everything but when I start to think that it has emotions too….then its time to lock me up and throw away he key.
Anyone want to comment on my comment?
Sorry Buster, no comment.
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Yet another story testifying to the durability of Apple’s products. Do you ever see stories like this about other companies electronic products? If so, I’d like to see them.
@ron
That isn’t MDN… that is the original writer. MDN doesn’t make a habbit of editing people’s work. They just quote it.
When my Mac sleeps, it dreams of electric sheep. . .
I agree with Buster. We shouldn’t anthropomorphize Macs. They hate that.
What is old is new again. Back in the late 1970’s Apple ran a “Baked Apple” magazine ad showing an Apple II that had been in a house fire that was still functional despite the melted case.
This wouldn’t have happened if he had Leopard.