With Apple releasing new laptops every couple of years, what’s a Mac lover to do with the obsolete models he’s abandoned in favor of the newest and shiniest new model? Here’s one “ingenious” Mac fan’s solution… and it’s enough to make even this hardened tech journo weep a tear of admiration as he remembers his own cinder block furniture days of post-frat bachelorhood.
Hysterical. He’s made himself a desk out of three 17-inch MacBook Pros, a 12-inch PowerBook G4 and a 15-inch MacBook Pro. I’d call the solution trashy, but to be honest, I use a dead 17 inch MacBook Pro as a serving tray to bring my girlfriend tea and toast in the mornings, so who am I to judge?
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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.
35 responses to “Check Out The Crazy Way This Guy Writes On His Old Apple Laptops [Humor]”
What a waste
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That’s at least $40 worth of laptops even if they are all in non-working condition. Â I say trade em in, get them recycled, and buy an IKEA table with the money.Â
suuuch a waste. I’m sure they work, they’re all pretty new
Put some memory and an SSD drive in then and keep using them.
And with Apple making crappier and crappier computers every year, we’ll be able to furnish a one bedroom apartment in no time.Â
That is how you do it!
I know this is supposed to be clever, but I don’t like it. I’ve never had a Mac laptop go bad on me, even my old original PowerBook 144 which I still have and which still works. It’s such a shame that these laptops haven’t been recycled, rebuilt and refurbished. All of these look just a few years old (if that). For the last 10 years, each time I upgrade, I trade in my old computer through Powermax.com for cash which goes towards my newer model. It keeps computers out of the landfill and lets someone else get more years of use out of them. There are several other companies that take trade-ins and I highly recommend using one of them.
Want to see my toilet bowl? It has a Mac for a cover!
” I use a dead 17 inch MacBook Pro as a serving tray to bring my girlfriend tea and toast in the mornings, so who am I to judge?”
Really Brownlee? You use a small, 3kg slippery surface as a serving tray?
Troll, please justify you’re statement.
Troll, please justify you’re statement.
I was thinking ‘Really Brownlee? You have a girlfriend?’
Who calls their girlfriend an inamorata?? Trying too hard John.. Both for the post to be funny and your about blurb.
lol apple doesn’t make those I’m sorry.
fanboy with an altar
A desk would’ve been cheaper…
Apparently some of you can’t read words inside of brackets. This is marked as “humor,” so it’s not a waste. It’s a joke.
Used* But Hey, whatever floats your boat. I think I have fewer typos in an average day, surfing internet forums.Â
But I digress, it’s cool; don’t know why it’s important.