Jowi Morales Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.
Notton It looks like the shrapnel went through the central battery pack and missed the ribbon cables connecting the keyboard and trackpad. I'm surprised the LiPo battery hasn't caught fire from the damage. Very lucky indeed. Reply
pjmelect I remember the story of a Russian soldier who had looted a Mac laptop and had replaced the plate of his body armour with it, of course he was shot and killed through the Mac laptop which offered no protection at all. Reply
S58_is_the_goat pjmelect said: I remember the story of a Russian soldier who had looted a Mac laptop and had replaced the plate of his body armour with it, of course he was shot and killed through the Mac laptop which offered no protection at all. Lolol, that's definitely something they would do 🤣 Reply
DS426 An 80-page paper notebook can stop shrapnel, or not… shrapnel takes all sorts of velocities, masses, and shapes… let's just say that a M1 Macbook won't stop shrapnel in *every* situation. A U.S. soldier threw a bed mattress on a frag grenade and that stopped it from doing any damage to anyone that was otherwise in the kill and high-damage radius, so… sorry Apple but virtually any notebook PC has more-or-less the same shrapnel stopping power as any other Dell, Acer, HP, and so on. If anything, I'd take my odds with an old thick gaming PC, or even a bed mattress, lol. Reply
derekullo Soldier: "I'm alive, yay! … OMG THE RAM! Ram is ok too!" "Soldier passes out" Reply
t3t4 "Shrapnel"? Uhhh, looks an awful lot like the entry of a bullet to me…. Ya know, from a "gun". But even a .22 cal will make it through that laptop no problem, so unless Apple is making pure tungsten keyboards now wrapped in Kevlar, I find it very hard to believe there's no exit wound! But, stranger things have happened I suppose. Reply
ggeeoorrggee t3t4 said: "Shrapnel"? Uhhh, looks an awful lot like the entry of a bullet to me…. Ya know, from a "gun". But even a .22 cal will make it through that laptop no problem, so unless Apple is making pure tungsten keyboards now wrapped in Kevlar, I find it very hard to believe there's no exit wound! But, stranger things have happened I suppose. Close up, the hole is not evenly circular. However at sufficient velocity and randomly small projectile shape — almost certainly in this case — the deformation of the target is way more dependent on the target material and uniformity rather than projectile shape. Also modern fragmentation devices are “fragmentation” not because of the exterior but rather the purpose-built payload of antipersonnel balls and flechettes embedded inside which resemble ball bearings and metal darts. Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/ukrainian-soldiers-m1-macbook-air-takes-direct-shrapnel-hit-still-works-despite-battle-damage-screen-cracked-and-letter-k-missing-but-laptop-remains-functional#main
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