It's easy to forget that only a few short months ago, Apple users were up in arms over #BendGate. When the iPhone 6 was released last September, users began complaining about how the phone's new aluminum body would bend under pressure. While reports on how much pressure was required to bend the phone all varied wildly, it was soon proven that Apple's newest phone could be bent with nothing more than one's bare hands, and it wasn't doing Apple's marketing any favors.
The iPhone 6 may not be as durable as the company once claimed, but the MacBook Air certainly is: in South Africa, a reddit user going by av80r tested the laptop's durability...by dropping it out of a plane.
Alright, so maybe it wasn't on purpose, but the results (if true) of the improptu crash test are no less impressive: despite falling roughly 1,000 feet from the plane to the ground, the MacBook Air not only stayed in one piece, but still works to this day.
So, the next time your iPhone falls out of your pocket and is absolutely annhiliated by the kitchen floor, just remember: if you'd bought a MacBook Pro instead, there's a chance it wouldn't have just survived, but could be dropped out of a plane and turn back on.
That being said, it's probably not something you'd want to test on your own.
