Thinkpad gets submerged into a NASA test tank

http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=88



Results: The laptop lasted for 3 seconds.

 

Very funny. Seems a cruel thing to do with an innocent notebook.

I coulda taken real good care of her...

 

LOL


Too bad they didnt test t other business notebooks in the Tank.

 

It was probably one of those T61's that kept BSODing.

 

Oh, ya mean like mine?
(it got sent off for repairs)

 

...................BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA.

What a great statement!!

PROPS DUDE.

 

Cruel, cruel things people do to their computers.... Where can I sign up?

 

I am already on the waiting list.

submergeyourlaptop.com


I would love to do that to my current laptop(see sig for l33t spec)

 

Eh it's a little too much propaganda for me. The idea is cool and the pictures of the NASA tank were neat, but it told me nothing about the thinkpad. I would have liked to see real world spill tests. Maybe a test were a mug of coffee is accidentally spilled on the keyboard. Or show what happens when pouring water on top of the keyboard in an attempt to wash out said coeffee.

 

Exactly.
What did they try to prove?

" We’ve got this idea. We’re going to drop a running ThinkPad into a NASA test tank and see what happens. Er…except…we don’t know what is going to happen. What could happen?”

What a GREAT question."

A great question???
Are they total retards or what???

 

I have the second response on that blog telling them how stupid I think it was.

 

Eh, don't they have the common sense that electronic items with water don't mix? Also that notebook wasn't waterproof or designed for underwater use at all. They might want to use Panosonic's toughbook instead.

Sad to see a functional notebook being dealt in such a hard way.

 

You know, instead of screwing around with these Thinkpads, like dump them in water or drive over them, how about Lenovo just SHIP THEM.

There's now two great customers that are going to end up waiting another 5 weeks for their Thinkpads.

 

Come to think of it.I'd rather they give the thinkpad to the OLPC programme than to waste it.

 

Dude, that is terrible. Imagine if 51 out of 52 kids in the class get those OLPC's and the last kid gets a super technologically-advanced Thinkpad. He won't make it out of the 1st grade alive!!

 

I bet the couple of hours using that NASA tank costs ten times as much as the laptop they used lol. Heck I bet the person they paid to do the video post production and take the pictures was paid more than the laptop costs. I would seriously like to see a real world spill test though. It doesn't have to be dramatic, just pour some water in between the keys and see what happens. Would it brick the machine?

The other thing is that the video shows nothing about the results. It just says it lasted 3 or something seconds. There were no pictures I saw of the machine dying or what happened when it was about to die. It was more like "hey look we're at nasa and we have a thinkpad. Since NASA is all high tech and stuff, our thinkpad must be all high tech too!'

I mean jeez you don't need to have some dude in a space suit lowered into some large vat of water to do a submerge test. Give the laptop to me, I'll throw it in the pool and it'll be free. I GUARANTEE you'll get the same results lol.