What happens if you drop a macbook pro onto marble flooring while standing up?

Question

Just curious about how sturdy they are.

Answer 1

Nothing good!

Answer 2

Depends on the angle it hits the floor at.  If it lands on its corner, you'll probably get some breakage.  If it lands flat, it may remain intact, but I'd be worried about internal breakage 7 disconnects.

If you're really concerned about something you could drop, you might look into industrial laptops like the Panasonic Toughbook or something similar.  I saw a video where a car drove over one of those and it still worked.

Answer 3

The case edge with bend and crack at some edges, the screen may shatter, and the hard drive may get damaged, seen enough dropped ones to know that you shouldnt do this

Answer 4

At minimum it would probably cause some cosmetic damage and shorten the life of the hard disk considerably. The hinge and screen would probably not do to well either. Its never good to drop a laptop  on any surface.

Answer 5

it will make a loud crashing noise when it hits the floor l=kinda like

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Answer 6

Based on my experience with other laptops, including Apples I would imaging the screen to be damaged and would need to be replaced. Depending on the angle the case may need to be replaced due to dents.

The apple is made out of Metal, but that's not saying it's 1/4 inch titanium, it will dent (which can be worse then Plastic), and it will get very hot in the sun which can damage the computer.

If your looking for a Laptop you can drop I'd recommend looking at the Toughbook.

Answer 7

why dont you drop it and find out?

Answer 8

It could cause some troubles like battery problems in the future. Or worse loose solders. Don't drop it like that again.

Answer 9

MacBook Pro is a full-featured notebook inside one inch of sturdy aluminum. It weighs just 5.4 pounds.

I found this online:

Durability

About 5% of MacBooks in our survey were dropped. Some fared well; others bent. There did not appear to be any correlation between being dropped and any specific component failure. This indicates that despite anecdotal experiences, the MacBooks seem to survive some rough handling reasonably well — as well as any densely packed box of electronics can be expected to.

Answer 10

Bad things.

The case is not durable - it bows out from the heat the computer produces alone.

I carried my 15.4" MacBook Pro around in a padded Timbuk2 Sleeve and padded backpack.  I was pretty gentle - but I am a clutz.  I probably ran into a wall here and there.

I had a dent in on the side where the front hinge was - it was about 1/4 inch deep and along the top and bottom of the case.

I had a dent in the side near the CD drive- this was more of a warp.  Something hit one side of the case and caused the case to bow out.  

Now, from this I learned something.  The top part of the case is held on by four thing metal tabs (yse, thin metal strips is what the Apple genius told me) that easily snap off (he told me that too) if handled without the utmost care.  This means, this can - if the screws are taken out - render your top of the casing to not be able to be connected to the bottom.  This happened to me.

I've also seen a dent in the top of the casing behind the screen near the glowing Apple logo which caused the screen to have a giant bulge and be pretty much worthless.  The kid was carrying it in a case in his backpack and was walking to class and kind of got shoved out of the way into a wall corner.  Not that hard- but hard enough I guess.

My boyfriend's room mate dropped his MBP from his bed onto a tile dorm room floor.  He had a junior loft and the bed was probably two feet off the floor.  It completely mashed in the side and because of that, his charger no longer worked.  His screen got distorted but it wasn't really at the point of impact.  His case was pretty messed up though and he had to pay over $1,000 in repairs.  It was pretty ugly.

It's a thin metal casing.  They are not very sturdy at all if you aren't perfectly gentle.  And Apple doesn't have accidental damage protection - so beware.