- We've got a helicopter.
We don't know where it is,
and I think I just lost
my bearings a little bit.
We lost our pilot.
We are stuck out here,
in the middle of nowhere.
(electric sound)
(upbeat dance music)
This is a 13 inch Apple MacBook Pro.
Brand new, just purchased today.
And this is the world's strongest
Apple MacBook laptop case.
This is supposed to protect your laptop
from wind damage, water damage,
changes in air pressure,
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(thuds)
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We need to go find our chopper,
and drop this thing off.
Let's go.
You know we're not gonna do
just a standard drop test.
We've got a helicopter.
So couple of questions.
One, will the case survive this drop?
Will it still function?
Can we even open the thing up?
- I really hope it does, yeah.
- Yeah, and then also,
will the computer work?
We are gonna find out,
so you don't have to.
- So, it's kinda tricky.
You have to, like, move
it around a few times.
But, then, this pops out.
There's four latches
around the sides of it.
And then, after that, you just open it up.
There's so much foam in here.
- It seems like the foam is
really what keeps it protected.
Okay, this is a brand new laptop.
I just bought it.
Lincoln, open it up.
Oh, it's so clean. No fingerprints on it.
Hey it has my name on
it, and a basketball.
- Yep.
- Did you put the basketball on there?
- Yep.
- There's a touch pad over here.
We can take it and, like, turn
up and down the brightness
with this touch bar that it has on it.
Lock it down.
Number one, two
- Two.
- Three,
four.
And we make it airtight with that.
(calm hiphop music)
(revving up sound)
All right, we made it
inside of the chopper.
We're gonna fly with the doors on,
and then I'm gonna open it up
and throw it out at the right moment.
This case.
("Let Me Feel" by Killrude)
(helicopter blades whirring)
Okay, good news.
We threw it out, it looked awesome.
I don't know if the GoPro worked,
it probably didn't on the thing,
but the bad news is,
it's just out here in the desert,
and so we have to find it.
It hit inside of a wash, and
I saw it jump behind a bush.
So now the Pelican case
search party is officially
out and gonna be looking.
So, Lincoln, this is the
wash, similar to this.
Just walk up it.
It looked like it jumped like to the left.
So, there's a couple washes,
there's this one and there's
one right next to it,
I'm gonna go over to that one.
Just go up and down this thing a bit more.
I usually have my buddy, iflyheli,
help us out on these helicopter things.
We couldn't get up to see him today, so
we used a different helicopter group.
We were just kind of circling
when we threw it out.
Whoa.
Somebody might be able
to come up and go hiking,
and find a free Apple laptop.
We've been looking for
a really long time, and
no luck, no case.
We didn't really do a thing
where you go straight up,
and like drop it, and
it goes straight down,
we were kinda moving.
And so as soon as we dropped it,
it hit in a spot, we kinda circled around,
and then came down to land.
I think I just lost my
bearings a little bit.
We don't know where it is.
And our helicopter pilot's
gotta get back to town.
He's got other people
that are going on rides.
Maybe there is an Apple laptop
out here in the wilderness
for somebody to come find.
I'm gonna go back and watch the footage,
see if we can get any clues.
Okay, now it's been about an hour.
We're out here.
The helicopter is way back over that way.
I'm walking around, our
helicopter pilot, Adam,
he wondered off to go look for stuff,
and now we can't find him.
Like, he's nowhere to be found.
I've been yelling for him,
but I can't find him.
(footsteps)
(breathing heavy)
I don't know where the heck he is.
Like, there's the helicopter.
There's the helicopter.
Lincoln's in it.
Adam!
Adam!
(camera rustles)
This!
He's down there!
Is it far away?
- I also found a deer, it
just walked down that wash!
- Okay!
Oh, my gosh! I was worried about you!
(Adam laughs)
- Yeah, sorry!
I have good cell reception down there!
- Okay, so our pilot disappears.
Adam's his name.
He disappears for, like, 40 minutes.
I'm getting worried.
I'm calling his helicopter place,
I got his cell phone number,
I was calling and texting him,
I was like, "Oh, no, we lost our pilot.
"We are stuck out here in
the middle of nowhere."
Finally, he comes, and
appears above a hill,
and says that he found the case.
I can't believe he found it.
I was thinking we were
gonna have to, like,
come back here, or just, like,
make a video and not have
anything with the case.
Let's go see how durable this thing is.
(upbeat western music)
So we found our pilot,
and he found the case!
- I'm safe.
- I was worried about you.
- I had to untuck my shirt,
that's how bad it is.
- Aww, jeez.
(Adam sighs)
Is it literally just sitting right there?
- Yeah.
- You haven't touched it?
- I didn't touch it.
I was trying to triangulate, kinda,
where we were
- Yeah.
- Where I thought the drop
might be. Different ravine.
So I was just coming up, following this,
and just happened to
look and there she is.
- There she is. Amazing.
- Trying to see where it hit.
(panting)
- Well...
- [Adam] Find the impact.
- The GoPro was attached
right there, okay.
It looks like this little latch came off.
It seems to be in good shape.
- [Adam] Uh-huh.
- There's a little bit of
foam sticking out of the back,
that's the only visible damage I can see.
Gosh, it looks like it hit right here.
(suspenseful music)
(latches opening)
(case opening)
Here we go.
Aw, jeez.
What?
What!
Look at the laptop!
It is damaged!
(record scratching noise)
It did not hold up!
It looks like it hit against the back wall
the case is cracked a little bit.
I mean, look at the laptop.
That thing is bent right there.
Looks like it bent the whole keyboard.
Can we even open it?
It's so bad right there on the back.
(grunts)
("Let Me Feel" by Killrude)
The touch bar works!
It still works!
It still works, it's just totally bent.
The metal is bent right there,
this metal is bent right there.
The keypad is just on an angle,
it's totally warped.
We're back to the helicopter, Lincoln.
The things we do for you
guys for these videos.
(helicopter revving up)
Okay, we're back indoors.
The air conditioning is going.
(Lincoln sighs)
All right, so here we go.
Lincoln, you think the computer is good?
- Whoa.
What happened here?
- Look at this. The whole--
- It must--
I bet it landed like,
this?
- It slid back
and hit the metal, and broke.
Sorry, hit the plastic
and broke that part of it.
And look at this.
- Does it even have any cracks?
(laughs)
- Look at that.
It's just really cracked.
Then you open it up, and
it just totally works.
- Nuh-uh.
- No problem at all.
(keyboard typing)
Types, the touch bar works,
it's just bent.
- Wait, but
it's just crazy.
Do you think Best Buy
will let you return it?
We're gonna see how good AppleCare is,
because I did get AppleCare on this
when I bought it yesterday.
(helicopter blades revving up)
We'll see what they say about that.
It's about a billion degrees outside.
Well, 102 Fahrenheit.
So, we are inside right now.
Let's see what's inside of this case.
Here is the computer
that held up quite well.
It is broken. I don't know
how long it's gonna last.
But--
- At least it still works.
- I mean, look at that, it totally works.
You can type on it.
It works, even though it's all bent
and looks kind of like a bent sandwich.
- A bent sandwich?
- Probably not the best
example I've ever used.
Apparently, I think we might have
done some user error on this.
Because we just set it in
the case and closed it,
and threw it,
which I think most common people would do.
- Yeah, I mean we didn't
read the instructions,
but I don't know if the instructions
says anything.
- I don't know, either.
- Because we didn't read it.
- But here's what I think
you might need to do.
Because it looks like
there's some sort of, like, cuts in these.
Like, take a look.
There's different lines.
And I'm pretty sure these are meant
for you to pick out where
your laptop case needs to go.
And then you, like, tear
out a hole, a little bit.
Like, maybe, something like this.
(foam ripping)
So these little sections
just kind of come out.
Check it out now.
And then maybe if we closed
it, and then we dropped it,
maybe it wouldn't have broke.
Maybe.
- Maybe.
- I don't know.
So what is it really inside of this thing?
You got this top layer of foam,
you have a bottom layer of foam.
- That's it?
And then there's plastic.
- Another one.
(case rattles)
- It's just a plastic box with foam in it.
(laughs)
- That's it.
- How expensive was this?
- This was around $200.
- For foam and plastic.
- And the reason why I thought about this,
was because there was an
article this last week
that John Ivy, the
chief designer of Apple,
that's designed a lot of
these products over the years,
the iPhone, the Apple
Watch, a lot of those.
He just left Apple this last week,
which is a huge departure with
their chief designer leaving.
They mentioned that when they
would do meetings with him,
they would bring iPhones that
haven't been released yet,
and they would put them inside
of a Pelican airtight case.
And they would take them to him.
So this should be the
same type of case that,
if you see somebody
around Apple headquarters,
carrying this around,
there's probably something in there,
that is top secret.
Like, maybe a new product
that isn't out yet.
So it is a pretty cool idea for a case.
And it is one of the toughest around,
but, as we've shown today--
- That's it. It's foam.
- It's just some foam
inside of a plastic case.
- Like, what if you put
this one right here,
and then you just put this right here?
- I think there's a lot of options
for the moving the foam around.
- Well then if this lid--
- But--
- What if you took some of this?
- There's a lot of what if's, Lincoln.
So let us know in the comments.
What are your thoughts on this thing
now that we've tested
it from a helicopter,
and showing you what it's really made of,
would you buy something like this
and carry it around for your computer?
- No.
(upbeat techno music)
(foam hits metal)
(laughing)
(claps)
- [Woman] It's so hard to not laugh.
(laughs)
- [Lincoln] Could you
imagine getting on a plane,
and you have this thing.
And they're like, "What is that, Sir?"
"My laptop!"
(laughing)
I know, right?
This is a pretty silly case
if you're just, like, going
onto a plane with this thing.
I feel like this is one
of those As Seen on TV.
Where like, "It's as easy as
1-2-3!" And then we suck at it.
This was a crazy idea, guys.
We should have just dropped it off
in the middle of a
parking lot or something.
(laughs)
But it was a good adventure.
- [Lincoln] That was so good!
