"baked" apple

u guys got to read this. i cant stop laughing

I work at an Apple Authorized Retailer and we just had a lady come in to see if we could fix her PowerBook G4. She walks in the store and comes up to me, "Sir, I've got a baked Apple". I laugh and she proceeds to take her powerbook g4 of the bag it was in. The top of the screen was a little brown and warped. I had my manager come up and look at it. He hadn't seen anything like that before. The lady opened up the machine and the screen was all cracked, and there was not a single key on the keyboard. I finally had to ask the lady how all of this had happened. As it turns out, she baked the PowerBook in the oven for 20 minutes. I kid you not. She said it with a straight face, and I could hardly keep from laughing. She wasn't joking. The thing was baked. She also kept every single key. She told us that they popped off while it was in the oven and she dug through to save every one.We told her that the cost of the screen alone would be around $1000 if not more, so she decided to leave the machine with us to discard of. Before we tossed it in the trash, I decided to try and power it up just for kicks, and it worked! The machine booted just fine! The screen is cracked and broken, but if you plug in an external monitor and keyboard it works like a charm. Ethernet, Modem, USB, Optical Drive, and HD all work just fine. I have already reformatted the HD and installed Mac OS 10.2.No, we don't know why she did it, but we are attempting to find out.

http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/Personal8.html

-eric m.

Placing a computer in the oven...and baking it for 20 minutes...something definitely wrong with this picture. Are you sure this story is real? It seems inconceivable anyone could be that stupid.

Placing a computer in the oven...and baking it for 20 minutes...something definitely wrong with this picture. Are you sure this story is real? It seems inconceivable anyone could be that stupid.

someone said it was real..it was also on some apple message board and the pictures on that site looks pretty convincing but i knw it doesnt sound right at all. baking a powerful notebook like that and it still works fine? I dont know what this women is up to..

Not just the fact that it still works, but the fact someone would place it in the oven (even if you weren't computer literate, sure you'd know it's not food ) seems a little far-fetched. Still, you sometimes read these "amazing but true" stories from Tech Support people (people using their CD-ROM drives as cup holders, etc), so you never know.

someone said it was real..it was also on some apple message board and the pictures on that site looks pretty convincing but i knw it doesnt sound right at all. baking a powerful notebook like that and it still works fine? I dont know what this women is up to..

you sometimes read these "amazing but true" stories from Tech Support people

I smell an Apple promotional...