MacBooks: it's the little things

ThinkPads (and recently, other notebooks as well) have a different solution: they automatically park their hard disks when they sense that the machine has been bumped or is falling. This prevents damage to the hard disk--but not the screen or the case. Apple's solution is elegant and smart. And clearly it's more effective to prevent computers from flying off desks than to try to rescue them once they are already airborne.