Thinkpads are tough puppies...

About 2 weeks ago, I was waiting for a guy to come over and pickup my old Thinkpad laptop. I picked up the unit and then, due to inattention or whatever, it slipped out of my hand and fell onto a hardwood floor dropping about 2 feet, landing directly on a corner and then bouncing at least once.

Thankfully, the computer was not on. Even so, I figured it might be toast because of the severe shock. At the very least, I thought the case would be cracked and my sale toast.

I picked it up and could not even find a mark or dent where it hit the floor. It booted right up and as far as I could tell, there was no damage. So, my sale went off without a hitch and as far as I can tell, the guy who bought it had no complaints (I gave him a limited guarantee.)

 

wow..thanks god. Is it a T40s?

 

Most laptops will be fine from a 2' drop... I've THROWN my 14" HP across the room (I sometimes have anger issues, lol) and it's been fine.
Also, when I was in CA, I had my 6 year old P3 dell lattitude on the edge of the table, and set my HP on top of it. Doing that caused them both to fall, the HP hit the ground first, lid open. Then the dell right on top of it. The HP was perfectly fine, but the lattitude's LCD shattered and, and a bunch of plastic broke on it.
Not trying to diss lattitudes or anything, the old ones just aren't built like the new ones are.

 

a long time ago i used to have a dell 5150 i think it was. i was using it in my car, got mad at it because it wouldnt work. threw it out the window, ran over it with my car. best feeling in the world, until i had to buy a new computer.

 

haha toshiba dude. funny story. i also think it's funny that you had a dell and currently use a macbook, but you're still ToshibaDude. =)

 

Not true mate. I once dropped a Toshiba from about a couple of feet and there was a huge crack on one of the corners and I once dropped a macbook from a table that was a feet high and it also got messed up.

Note: I'm not saying your lying, I'm just saying no every laptop is as tough as you would think. Please don't throw anything at me

 

Lapman, did you tell the guy about the drop? I guess it would be okay if you didn't since you gave him a limited guarantee, I'm just curious.

 

Today, just when I woke up, I didn't notice a dish on my table and accidentally hit it, the dish dropped right on the screen of my T60 which was
sleeping on the floor. Then I examined the screen, nothing happened, I didn't even notice a scratch.
That was cool.

 

I don't have much more info than what you can see here, the language is swedish but for starters the guy on the video stands on the thinkpad (and the toughbook) - he weighs 92 kg (without clothes). Bends the thinkpad quite nicely and the chassi didn't like it that much but the computer worked at least

http://www.streamio.se/Play?projectId=2243

I don't like the way the tests are performed (like dropping 1 kg on the cd-tray... - could be better) but it's atleast something.

 

yeah, i joined this forum when i had my toshiba. the majority of my laptops were toshibas, all of which did not have any problems.

 

Toshibas are the worst pieces of junk I've ever owned, lol. First, toshiba HDD in my laptop failed after 1.5 yrs. Then the screen on the family laptop (toshiba) falls back on it. Also, my Toshiba tv burned out after only 3 years...

 

Similar experience with Toshiba here... except it was a DVD tray that won't go back in its hole, even with my hercules-like strong push! (it would still pop back out) HAHA

 

Haha! One of the dell pc's I had been using at school for the past two days does something similar. I press the eject button, the tray comes out. I press it again, and it goes back in. But, 10 seconds later, it comes right back out. So I push it in again. But it keeps popping back out! lol. I think I'm gonna write down the serial # of it, and see who makes the drive, lol.

 

I've dropped my x60 twice now onto carpet from 3 or 4 feet up. No problems