When you have to fork over a couple of hundred bills to get your Mac repaired, it can sometimes seem like Apple’s pretty desktops and laptops are too fragile for their own good, blowing apart in the path of a sneeze… but actually, Cupertino’s taken great pains to make them some of the toughest laptops around.
Case in point: during a recent wave of arson in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, the business of one Mac owner was savagely burned down. All of the items inside were destroyed by the fire, save two: a pair of 20-inch 2007 aluminum iMacs.
Even more amazing? Not only did the iMacs survive the fire, they also continued to operate even after being repeatedly sprayed by the hoses of the local fire constabulary.
It occurs to me this story would be great evidence to pull out next time you’re denied warranty coverage for your Mac at the local Genius Bar. In my experience, Geniuses like to deny coverage for both smoking around your Apple products and getting them wet… both of which at least these two iMacs seemed to be immune to.
[via TUAW]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
