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Once you have an accident and get a scratch somewhere you generally start feeling less protective, or at least that's how I am with my tech. I don't stop caring

Once you have an accident and get a scratch somewhere you generally start feeling less protective, or at least that's how I am with my tech. I don't stop caring altogether, though - I'm just less bothered about the not-so-obvious cosmetics. I'm not afraid to take my laptops apart these days. It's my hardware and I've seen it naked. Maybe it's about seeing "for yourself" that your machine isn't quite as delicate as you had led yourself to believe? I don't even know :)

kohanz 12y ago
My car would be an analogy for this. We used to live in a sketchy neighborhood and one night our car got keyed by some kids. I was pretty upset and up-in-arms about it for a while. Fixing it would be expensive (insurance covers it, but still have to pay deductible), so we just decided to leave it. Once I got over it, I found myself being much less stressed about the condition of the car in general. As long as I'm keeping it, I'm fine it with it looking not new and as long as its functional, superficial things don't bother me anymore. If it comes time to sell the car, I'll get it fixed up.