Ouch! Staples inside the iBook latch
Updating computers usually isn’t physically painful but today, I was stabbed by a staple that caught on the inside of an iBook’s magnetic catch. Most of the staple was inside the iBook casing, with only one metal leg showing, just enough to draw blood.
Both the iBook and Powerbook have a metal latch sticking through the plastic of the case. While I have seen paper clips grabbed by the magnetic latches, this is the first time I have seen a staple that had worked its way to the inside of the latch.
Last century, we had to keep magnetics away from our computers. It looks like this century, we have to keep metal, especially small pieces of metal, away from the computer’s magnets.
