Originally Posted by karthik

I just knocked my PowerBook off a bed onto the floor a few minutes ago. Landed on its side. Picked it back up hoping for the best, and was treated to the sound of the hard drive spinning back up. Score one for the Sudden Motion Sensor parking the drive heads in the fraction of a second while the laptop was in midair!

Carpeted floor thankfully, no apparent damage to the laptop... Wouldn't have been very fun dealing with a broken laptop while out of the US on a RTW for several months.

Yet another reason to buy Apple!