http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/tag/poof en-us 40 thoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect <p>We picked up an iSight for those of us in the office who have older powerbooks without a builtin webcam&#8230; and I was playing with the magnet that came with it and somehow didn&#8217;t think twice about setting it down on my laptop&#8230; loud noise&#8230; 2 seconds later&#8230;. black screen!</p> <p>...yeah&#8230; I lost a hard drive.</p> <p><img src="http://www.planetargon.com/files/~robby/301330_2.png" alt="" /></p> <p>Fun times. :-)</p> <p><strong><span class="caps">UPDATE</span></strong></p> <p>...the magnet is now in the garbage. <span class="caps">TAKE THAT</span>!</p> <p><strong><span class="caps">UPDATE</span> #2</strong></p> <p>I&#8217;m not the only person that this happened to&#8230;</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=61490&#38;page=3">Magnet madness to hit Intel iBook line</a></li> <li><a href="http://paulhammant.com/blog/magnets-and-laptops.html">iSights, magnets, powerbooks</a></li> <li><a href="http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-30897.html">Shocked and horrified</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.macminute.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showflat.pl?Cat=&#38;Board=general&#38;Number=227025&#38;page=32&#38;view=collapsed&#38;sb=5&#38;o=0&#38;part">magnet and hard disk</a>=</li> </ul> <p>It&#8217;s interesting to hear so many people say, <em>&#8220;It takes a really powerful magnet to destroy a hard drive. I doubt that happend in your case. That magnet is not strong enough.&#8221;</em></p> <p>...perhaps it is.</p> Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:41:00 -0500 urn:uuid:adc1eddb-8cfe-4fd4-a362-427c792a64f7 Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/08/11/isight-magnet-is-teh-suck harddrive poof isight powerbook magnet