Transporting an iMac?

[Davoud]

I need to take an iMac on a short road trip, about 230 miles, in the
back of a soft-riding luxury SUV. The display is well padded by bubble
wrap. How to load it--upright on its stand, or face down? If upright it
would be constrained from falling over by other items packed in the
car.

TIA!

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In article <050620161119129832%st...@sky.net>, Davoud <st...@sky.net>
wrote:

> I need to take an iMac on a short road trip, about 230 miles, in the
> back of a soft-riding luxury SUV. The display is well padded by bubble
> wrap. How to load it--upright on its stand, or face down? If upright it
> would be constrained from falling over by other items packed in the
> car.

it doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't bounce around or something
falls on it.

[Alan Baker]

On 2016-06-05 8:19 AM, Davoud wrote:
> I need to take an iMac on a short road trip, about 230 miles, in the
> back of a soft-riding luxury SUV. The display is well padded by bubble
> wrap. How to load it--upright on its stand, or face down? If upright it
> would be constrained from falling over by other items packed in the
> car.
>
> TIA!
>

I normally put them upright with the screen pressed against seatback

[JF Mezei]

On 2016-06-05 11:19, Davoud wrote:
> I need to take an iMac on a short road trip, about 230 miles, in the
> back of a soft-riding luxury SUV. The display is well padded by bubble
> wrap. How to load it--upright on its stand, or face down? If upright it
> would be constrained from falling over by other items packed in the
> car.

If seat is full of cargo:
Standing and with screen facing side of car, not front or back.

This way, when accelerating or braking suddently, other boxes on seat
will not press against the screen.

If seat is otherwise empty, strapping it down so it doesn't move when
you brake/accelerate is more important than orientation.

[Savageduck]

On Jun 5, 2016, Davoud wrote
(in article <050620161119129832%st...@sky.net>):

> I need to take an iMac on a short road trip, about 230 miles, in the
> back of a soft-riding luxury SUV. The display is well padded by bubble
> wrap. How to load it--upright on its stand, or face down? If upright it
> would be constrained from falling over by other items packed in the
> car.
>
> TIA!

Safe packing is a good idea. If in a well designed case placed on the vehicle
floor behind the seat it should survive. The additional bubble wrap could be
placed between the case and seatback, and between the case and the leading
edge of the rear seat. As for case, you can start here:
<http://www.ilugger.com>
<http://www.bigsoso.com>
<http://www.theflightcasecompany.com/apple-flight-cases/imac-bags/27-imac-
bags/>

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[Savageduck]

On Jun 5, 2016, Savageduck wrote
(in article<0001HW.1D04B4E60...@news.giganews.com>):

The prices can vary based on size and configuration:
<http://www.ilugger.com/product/catalog.cfm?nid=1460>

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[JF Mezei]

On 2016-06-05 15:28, Savageduck wrote:

> Safe packing is a good idea. If in a well designed case placed on the vehicle
> floor behind the seat it should survive.

Check that reclining seat won't damage the package.

[Savageduck]

On Jun 5, 2016, JF Mezei wrote
(in article<57548eea$0$57948$c3e8da3$c8b7...@news.astraweb.com>):

Yup!
...or just buy a hard case.
<http://www.casecruzer.com/apple-imac27/>
<http://www.tenba.com/products/transport-air-case-for-computer-equipment-27-
apple-imac-w-wheels.aspx>
<http://www.pelicancases.com/Pelican-1630-27-iMac-P196.aspx>

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[Lewis]

In message <050620161119129832%st...@sky.net>

Davoud <st...@sky.net> wrote:
> I need to take an iMac on a short road trip, about 230 miles, in the
> back of a soft-riding luxury SUV. The display is well padded by bubble
> wrap. How to load it--upright on its stand, or face down? If upright it
> would be constrained from falling over by other items packed in the
> car.

Upright.

Best to load it into its original box.


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[Savageduck]

On Jun 5, 2016, Lewis wrote
(in article <slrnnl9889....@amelia.local>):

> In message<050620161119129832%st...@sky.net>
> Davoud <st...@sky.net> wrote:
> > I need to take an iMac on a short road trip, about 230 miles, in the
> > back of a soft-riding luxury SUV. The display is well padded by bubble
> > wrap. How to load it--upright on its stand, or face down? If upright it
> > would be constrained from falling over by other items packed in the
> > car.
>
> Upright.
>
> Best to load it into its original box.

If you have it, some folk don’t collect boxes.

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[Your Name]

In article <0001HW.1D04B63E0...@news.giganews.com>,

That's one reason why it's a good idea to keep the original box and
packing material - it's purposely designed for shipping the iMac around
and it's free. :-)

[Savageduck]

On Jun 5, 2016, Your Name wrote
(in article <060620161004169547%Your...@YourISP.com>):

Yup! However, so many don’t do that. Travelling with an iMac is a little
unusual for most folks, though I concede that some might need to do that.
There is a reason for laptops. ;-)



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[dorayme]

In article <050620161119129832%st...@sky.net>, Davoud <st...@sky.net>
wrote:

> I need to take an iMac on a short road trip, about 230 miles, in the
> back of a soft-riding luxury SUV. The display is well padded by bubble
> wrap. How to load it--upright on its stand, or face down? If upright it
> would be constrained from falling over by other items packed in the
> car.

For Christ's sake! You are quite a troll! But it will pull in the
unsuspecting. The other possibility is that you really do lack even
basic commonsense.

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[Davoud]

Your Name:

> That's one reason why it's a good idea to keep the original box and
> packing material - it's purposely designed for shipping the iMac around
> and it's free. :-)

I have a good-sized house, quite adequate to the needs of my wife and
me. Still, I don't have room to store the boxes from all four of our
iMacs. I keep the latest box for a period, then dump it.

I like the way some people fail to read. I said "back of an SUV" and
some talked about it being on a seat. Some talked about hitting it with
a reclining seat. OK, I didn't say this is a solo trip with no one in
back to recline the seat. Alan Baker probably got it right, upright
with the display against the seat-back. But I have packed it on its
face on a large piece of foam rubber (in addition to the bubble wrap)
and it will be fine.

I'm handing the iMac to a relative who will be ferrying it from SW Pa.
to Chicago--I'm giving it to him.

Thanks to all.

[JF Mezei]

On 2016-06-05 20:55, Davoud wrote:

> I like the way some people fail to read. I said "back of an SUV"

What does SUV mean ? Seems it is used as marketing term for a wide
variety of configurations. From a Subaru "car" that is too low to go off
road to some truck with flatbed.

The US manufacturers initially used "SUV" to rebadge their trucks into
something more sporty (trucks are more profitable than cars). But
eventually every manufacturer and their brothers started to tag "SUV"
onto anything for marketing purposes (until SUV became unpalatable for
marketing).


So when someone mentioned putting the display on the floor in fropnt of
seat, this assumes an SUV that is more like a car and at that point,
setas reclining or worse, moving back become a potetial problem.

[Your Name]

In article <0001HW.1D04DBF70...@news.giganews.com>,

> Yup! However, so many donšt do that. Travelling with an iMac is a little

> unusual for most folks, though I concede that some might need to do that.
> There is a reason for laptops. ;-)

Keeping the box is also handy if you need to take the computer back for
repair, when moving houses, needing to temporarily store the computer
out of the way (for example, when having new carpet put in), etc.

If you later sell the computer, then some people are willing to pay a
bit more if it still has the complete original box. Even if the
computer completely dies and is thrown out, some people will buy the
empty box by itself. In some cases of old Macs, the box can be worth
more than the computer because most people did simply throw them away!

[Jolly Roger]

On 2016-06-06, JF Mezei <jfmezei...@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-06-05 20:55, Davoud wrote:
>
>> I like the way some people fail to read. I said "back of an SUV"
>
> What does SUV mean ?

*smh*

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[Your Name]

In article <5754d728$0$59611$c3e8da3$4605...@news.astraweb.com>, JF

Mezei <jfmezei...@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-06-05 20:55, Davoud wrote:
>
> > I like the way some people fail to read. I said "back of an SUV"
>
> What does SUV mean ?

<snip>

Seriously Useless Vehicle ...
Usually bought as poser-mobiles and fashion accessories, are too big to
properly fit into garages and parking spaces, and most never actually
go off the road (and would have trouble getting off slightly damp grass
even if they did). ;-)

[David Ryeburn]

In article <5754d728$0$59611$c3e8da3$4605...@news.astraweb.com>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei...@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> On 2016-06-05 20:55, Davoud wrote:
>
> > I like the way some people fail to read. I said "back of an SUV"
>
> What does SUV mean ? Seems it is used as marketing term for a wide
> variety of configurations. From a Subaru "car" that is too low to go off
> road to some truck with flatbed.

I've had three Subarus, a 1988 GL 4x4 station wagon with old-fashioned
truck-type 4WD, and 1997 and 2007 manual transmission Outbacks with
viscous-coupled differential AWD. I keep them until they get 250,000 or
300,000 hard km on them and then give them to one of my adult daughters
to put another 100,000 km or so on them. They've all had about 8.5
inches of ground clearance, more ground clearance than a Ford Explorer,
and they've all gone some pretty nasty places, with care and without
damage. At a trailhead I was asked (by the driver of a raised Ford
pickup truck who arrived as I was putting on my hiking boots) how I got
there. My response: "Very carefully". (I descended that "road" even more
carefully, glad that my Outback had manual transmission; engine rpm got
up to close to 5000, in first gear of course. By the way, the current
2007 Outback has over 175,00 km on its original brake pads. I generally
get the brakes done just before I give the things to my daughters, so
that they won't have the expense.) I don't call them SUVs nor does
Subaru. They're more station wagons on steroids.


In article <060620161457508342%Your...@YourISP.com>,

Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote:

> Seriously Useless Vehicle ...
> Usually bought as poser-mobiles and fashion accessories, are too big to
> properly fit into garages and parking spaces, and most never actually
> go off the road (and would have trouble getting off slightly damp grass
> even if they did). ;-)

I hope, when you write about Macs, you know more what you're talking
about than you do here. Not all "SUVs" are alike. Not all computers are
alike either, as any Mac owner should know.

I've kept the boxes from both of our iMacs, but when each had its hard
drive go belly-up, since I had no appetite for using plumber's helpers
to get inside, they were taken to a dealer for hard drive replacement
(something I've always easily done in the past with Macs designed to be
opened by ordinary mortals). Since I only had to drive a few miles, in
each case I simply put several layers of bath towel down in the cargo
area of the Outback, put the iMac face-down on the bath towels,
positioned it in contact with the erect rear seatbacks so that if I
braked hard the computer wouldn't slide forward into the seatback,
refrained from accelerating so violently that the computer would slide
backward, and drove, carefully, to the repair place. I don't think I'd
do that for a 230 mile trip, however. In each case the computer survived
several miles of insane Greater Vancouver, BC traffic (both ways).

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[Your Name]

In article
<david_ryeburn-A81...@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>, David

Ryeburn <david_...@telus.netz> wrote:
> In article <060620161457508342%Your...@YourISP.com>,
> Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote:
> > In article <5754d728$0$59611$c3e8da3$4605...@news.astraweb.com>,
> > JF Mezei <jfmezei...@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> > > On 2016-06-05 20:55, Davoud wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I like the way some people fail to read. I said "back of an SUV"
> > >
> > > What does SUV mean ? Seems it is used as marketing term for a wide
> > > variety of configurations. From a Subaru "car" that is too low to go off
> > > road to some truck with flatbed.
> >

> > Seriously Useless Vehicle ...
> > Usually bought as poser-mobiles and fashion accessories, are too big to
> > properly fit into garages and parking spaces, and most never actually
> > go off the road (and would have trouble getting off slightly damp grass
> > even if they did). ;-)
>
> I hope, when you write about Macs, you know more what you're talking
> about than you do here. Not all "SUVs" are alike.

Hint: Winking smiley = JOKE! :-\

[Savageduck]

On 2016-06-06 00:55:46 +0000, Davoud <st...@sky.net> said:

> Your Name:
>> That's one reason why it's a good idea to keep the original box and
>> packing material - it's purposely designed for shipping the iMac around
>> and it's free. :-)
>
> I have a good-sized house, quite adequate to the needs of my wife and
> me. Still, I don't have room to store the boxes from all four of our
> iMacs. I keep the latest box for a period, then dump it.
>
> I like the way some people fail to read. I said "back of an SUV" and
> some talked about it being on a seat. Some talked about hitting it with
> a reclining seat. OK, I didn't say this is a solo trip with no one in
> back to recline the seat. Alan Baker probably got it right, upright
> with the display against the seat-back. But I have packed it on its
> face on a large piece of foam rubber (in addition to the bubble wrap)
> and it will be fine.

None of us had any idea of how you were going to configure the SUV
seats, or that there would be other folks along for the ride in the
back seats.

> I'm handing the iMac to a relative who will be ferrying it from SW Pa.
> to Chicago--I'm giving it to him.

I wish you had told us that from the start of this thread. If you had,
I probably wouldn't have suggested any of the bags or cases.


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Savageduck

[Davoud]

Davoud:

> > > I like the way some people fail to read. I said "back of an SUV"

JF Mezei:

> > What does SUV mean ? Seems it is used as marketing term for a wide
> > variety of configurations. From a Subaru "car" that is too low to go off
> > road to some truck with flatbed.

Until a week ago "SUV" meant "2014 Subaru Forester 2.0 Turbo 5-door SUV
with plenty of ground clearance for reasonable off-road use." Now it
means "2016 Lexus RX-350 SUV w. AWD, meant for all-season luxury
driving, not well suited for off-road except in relatively smooth
terrain."

[Savageduck]

On 2016-06-06 20:30:46 +0000, Davoud <st...@sky.net> said:

> Davoud:
>>>> I like the way some people fail to read. I said "back of an SUV"
>
> JF Mezei:
>>> What does SUV mean ? Seems it is used as marketing term for a wide
>>> variety of configurations. From a Subaru "car" that is too low to go off
>>> road to some truck with flatbed.
>
> Until a week ago "SUV" meant "2014 Subaru Forester 2.0 Turbo 5-door SUV
> with plenty of ground clearance for reasonable off-road use." Now it
> means "2016 Lexus RX-350 SUV w. AWD, meant for all-season luxury
> driving, not well suited for off-road except in relatively smooth
> terrain."

What?! No Range Rover?

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[JF Mezei]

On 2016-06-06 16:30, Davoud wrote:

> Until a week ago "SUV" meant "2014 Subaru Forester 2.0 Turbo 5-door SUV
> with plenty of ground clearance for reasonable off-road use." Now it
> means "2016 Lexus RX-350 SUV w. AWD, meant for all-season luxury
> driving, not well suited for off-road except in relatively smooth
> terrain."

In 1999, I rode the Warburton road (Great Central road) in middle of
Australia. Guy and his son had to turn back at Warrrakurna because
their "Subaru Outback" didn't have ground clearance to do the road :-)

(Yep, the "Outback" not having what it takes to drive an Outback road :-)

[dorayme]

In article <2016060607275478173-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,

Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

> I wish you had told us that from the start of this thread. If you had,
> I probably wouldn't have suggested any of the bags or cases.

Desperation to help a man who utterly lacks common sense will always
lead to trouble.

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[Your Name]

In article <2016060613390242919-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,

Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

A Range Rover isn't a silly "SUV" ... it's a proper off-road vehicle.
:-)