Aluminum iMac survives fire, water

Recent incidents of arson in the city of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia have resulted in many businesses losing nearly everything they had. One fire this past week left a certain business owner with little left to salvage, but there was one bright spot to be found poking out from the ashes. Or rather, there were two...

A pair of iMacs survived the not only the intense heat of the blaze that night, but also the subsequent water firefighters used to extinguish the flames. According to our friend Wei who sent us this story, the iMacs were of the mid-2007, 20" aluminum variety.

There's no longer that clean, finished exterior, of course, but the computers miraculously still work (see photo on the right) which is certainly a testament to how well they were made to begin with.

If this story sounds familiar to you, it should. It's not the first time we've featured an indestructible, fire-proof iMac here on TUAW. About one year ago, a Swedish man was also unfortunately hit by a house fire that destroyed his entire home and everything in it.

Everything except for his iMac that is, which was still functional after the ordeal.

Aluminum iMac survives fire, water originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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