AW17 R5 accident

Recently, I was travelling in a bus. I put my AW17 in the overhead bin. It was in a soft notebook case. The bus braked sharply and the notebook flew out of the overhead bin and crashed to the floor.
Resulting damage from a 1.8 meter fall? NOTHING.
There are advantages to having a notebook which is built like construction equipment.

 

Poor bus..

 

Imagine if the laptop landed on some poor lad's head

 

hmm.... my m14xr2 fell from a chair that was 1 foot off the ground. Results, cracked corner base and palm rest.

The new models are tanks.... heavy heavy tanks.

 

Nice to know it will survive a drop. :thumbsup: My systems rarely leave my desk except for repairs or upgrades.

P.S. All the more reason to have accidental damage coverage!

 

It really depends how it falls and lands....a smart phone can take 100 drops and survive just fine, whereas someone I know has a new S5 Rugged edition, dropped it once and the screen broke. It is all how it lands and how the impact is absorbed
I wouldn't suggest people go flinging their 17's around to replicate these results

 

That's true. I remember one time someone posted in the Alienware section asking people to intentionally damage (drop) these new Alienware's because they wanted to see how strong they were. That thread might still exist... Who in their right mind would spend thousands of dollars and intentionally damage a computer?

 

I remember that thread... horrid idea he had.

Wasnt it with the m11x too?

 

Haha...I remember that one too, it had some guy that dropped his m14x? and it had pieces and chunks missing because he dropped it all the time lol.

 

Mine tipped off a table once because the legs on the base of the table were very narrow. No damage at all. Can't say the same for the g74sx that had the same thing happen to it.

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Wow imagine if that had hit someone, that's not something I'd want! Then again with any speed I think my p570wm would be classed as a lethal weapon due to the weight :/