A good laptop can't just change your life but can seemingly also save it - at least as one MacBook Air owner found out as the outer casing saved them from a fatal gunshot wound.
Apple is renowned for its top of the range build quality, as many have praised the company's typically iconic machined aluminum casing for it's build quality and design.
This is perhaps most true with the MacBook Air range, which slims down the laptop format to its limits, creating an ultralight product that doesn't sacrifice on build quality, and one particular incident involving a bullet perhaps serves as the best advertisement of this fact.
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Posting on the r/macbook subreddit, user u/MartyMcFly_01 details how their MacBook Air quite literally saved their life as the rear of the screen deflected a bullet that would have otherwise hit them.
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The user, who explains that they're often found at their desk studying for their medicine degree, outlines the bizarre, life-altering incident:
"Las night, I was doing some reading at my desk and decided to listen to some music, which I usually don’t do while reading (throws off my concentration), but I figured what the hell and flipped open the screen.
"All of a sudden, while I had my AirPods in, a bullet crashed through the window, smacking the back of my laptop screen and ricocheting to the back of the room."
The miraculous event left them completely unharmed - although you unfortunately can't say the same for the laptop itself, as understandably the screen is completely broken.
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We'd expect this to be a trade that most people would take however, though it does mean that they had to opt for an external monitor to keep working away at their desk.
"That thing is a tank," they assert, "It has eaten everything I've thrown at it," but you can't exactly fault a MacBook for not surviving after being shot.
The comments underneath the post are equally in shock at the situation, with one user suggesting that they should "hit up Apple" to see if the company could do anything to help out. We wonder if gunshot wound is a valid part of the warranty.
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"Who needs a bulletproof vest when you have a MacBook with ya," another user adds, whereas one comment jokes that they should have ended the post with "any way to fix this?"
It goes to show that your tech is often stronger than you might think, and it's sometimes easy to underestimate the extremes at which they could come to your aid.