Laptop resilience
Aug 1st, 2006 by Phil Dawes
This morning (like most mornings) I was doing a bit of last-minute-hacking in the station waiting for the tube. The carriage looked pretty empty when it arrived, and so rather than suspend the laptop I just picked it up and grabbed my bag. Unfortunately I then proceeded to trip over my bag strap and fling the laptop through the open doors into the carriage where in ricocheted off the seat-pole-thingy and skidded across the floor into the opposite doors.
The result of this maiden voyage? Well, apart from some surface damage, the laptop appears fine. Haven’t done a full fsck yet but I’m not getting any errors in the syslog. The resilience of laptops never ceases to amaze me.
To qualify this: I have a bit of experience when it comes to mistreating laptops; I dropped my sony x505 down the stairs a few years back (carpetted stairs mind you, but it still bounced 3 times without breaking). My last work laptop got nicked. Then there was the orange juice incident.
x40s are pretty hard built. Hope Lenovo do keep up the built quality in the new ones.