I've got an ailing Pismo 500 that I accidentally bent out of shape on Wednesday (it was in a backpack that took a four-foot drop with some pretty good initial velocity, so probably more like a five or six foot drop), and now I'm having troubles with the DVD-ROM module not working (the module was in the front of the backpack, so it was pounded on by the weight of the rest of the textbooks and the Pismo in the backpack (that's 6 [Pismo] plus at least 10 [textbooks], so probably around 20 pounds of weight at a good velocity—not good). The backpack strap broke (a Wal-Mart purchase… sigh), and now I think the Pismo is done for… functionally, anyway. My sister (the one with the clamshell) will probably love it. So, I'm stuck between supporting Bill Gates (Never!), Steve Jobs (eh…), and Linus Torvalds (hmm…). I like Mac OS X, especially Leopard (which my college has on our newspaper production iMacs [check out www.bannernewsonline.com]), but I'm starting to see that my chances of getting a Mac as ubiquitous as the Pismo are slim. So… I hate to say this, but has anyone seen the new Asus Eee PCs with the Intel Atom N450? The battery life alone would sell them to me—14 hours. But I'm not using Windows—never again! I'm going to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it, for my sanity. I personally love UNR on our crappy HP Pavilion (solves the Vista problem better than 7 ever could). But before I bid farewell to the portable Mac tribe (I'll be using desktop Macs to kingdom come), does anyone have any ideas how to bend the metal internal structure of the Pismo back into shape?
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