Like most people who beat the shit out of their expensive electronics, when it breaks, these douchebags immediately cry about a line-wide defect necessitating a class action lawsuit.
Never mind the fact that I’ve, since the age of 14 (13 years ago, for those counting) lived out of PowerBooks from the Duo 270c on up and NEVER NOT ONCE had a broken hinge despite my not-always-nice treatment of my equipment. Never mind the fact that the MacBook Air was the first of Apple’s portable computers to use the block-of-aluminum manufacturing technique to increase structural stability. Never mind the fact that I saw a guy at a Starbucks walking around holding his MacBook Air BY THE SCREEN when his hinge did just what the whiny tools at Engadget are saying (at the submitter’s request, I suppose) is a defect. The other thing I’ve seen cause the MacBook Air hinge to do just that is just plain pushing the screen back real fast, real hard and ignoring the METAL ON METAL TENSION that would cause normal people to stop pushing the goddamned screen back. Push too hard, and *SNAP*.
Next thing you know is a class action lawsuit against Apple for not making the Unibody MacBook line strong enough to take impacts from a 5 foot drop because, you know, they’re built stronger and should be able to hold up to “normal use.” Kind of like the human knee not being able to extend 270 degrees. I smell a class action lawsuit against God…