Did iPad 2 Smart cover kill my laptop?

My MacBook air suddenly died, it cannot start up. One possible explanation is that I held the magnet of the smart cover of the iPad 2 right next to the MacBook air, and thereby corrupted the HDD. Is that possible? My MacBook air is only around half a year old, but it's the previous model with HDD.

In this university, anything is possible. However, even if your hard drive were corrupted, the entire computer would not be dead. It OS also highly unlikely that the tiny magnets in the smart cover could do any damage, there was another thread about this isse from a hypothetical perspective a month or so back, you might want to do a search for it. A number of people posting had a great deal of technical expertise.
Meanwhile, you should make an appointment at the nearest Apple store and have the, give you a definitive answer,
Best of luck.

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