Taking Care of Your Laptop

When you are given a $2,000 piece of equipment, it would of course be very important to take care of it. What sort of $2,000 piece of equipment? I am talking about a MacBook Air. This week we were given our MacBook Airs, which we were really excited about, but we had to learn a lot about; specifically how to take care of them.

The first rule that most kids already knew about was keeping laptops away from food and drinks. We learned that the crumbs from food and any liquid is deadly to the laptop’s keys. The laptop could stop working completely if food falls on the keys. 
It is also very important to keep your laptops in your hand at all times. The reason why it’s a bad idea to put your laptop in your backpack is because things like books and pens could put pressure on it and crack the screen. So, for example, if you will be going to play a sport on the field after school, and you know you might throw your bag down, then you should put your laptop in your locker where it will be safe. The rule you want to follow is if your laptop will not be in your hand, it is in your locker. 
Keeping your laptop in your hand relates to not being rough with your laptop. Don’t throw it around or swing it or do anything rough with it. Finally, we have to remember to zip up our laptop in it’s case when we are done using it, and to never take it out of it’s case, even when we are using it. The case keeps the laptop safe and it prevents the laptop from falling out when we are walking in the hallways.

Many people say, “With great power comes great responsibility.” The laptops are like the ‘great power’ and taking care of them is the ‘great responsibility’. Some disagree, but I believe that if we want to use the laptops to do a bunch of really cool stuff, we have to be responsible by taking good care of them.

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