If you can't stand the heat, be sure to have a Toughbook!

Caught in a blaze: From the desk of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office
March 15th, 2009

“One of our deputies drove to our patrol office and went inside for roll call. The brakes on his car must have been locked and heated to a combustible temperature and caught fire while the deputy was in the building. It wasn’t until a citizen passing by noticed the flames coming from the engine compartment that the fire department was dispatched.

The deputy had a Panasonic Toughbook CF-27 mounted in the the driver’s compartment of the car. It was estimated that the temperature inside the driver’s compartment reached upwards of 1000 degrees. The dash board was melted and everything in the glove box was incinerated. The laptop screen was down and the computer was off at the time. The fire department extinguished the flames, drenching the laptop with hundreds of gallons of high pressure water.

After the fire was out, the laptop was removed from the vehicle and placed in a plastic garbage bag. No attempt was made to dry or clean off the computer. I was given the computer two days later and put it in the back of my truck because it smelled so bad of smoke. After it had aired out for a week I took it into my office to see what I could salvage from the computer. I was doubtful there would be anything usable. I noted the back of the laptop had experienced such intense heat that it melted some of the ports. Just for fun, I hit the power switch and was shocked when I saw the hard drive and battery lights come on. I watched in amazement as the LCD lit up and the computer booted to windows without a hitch. These are the TOUGHEST computers in the world! This is the reason why we have been loyal Panasonic customers for the last 10 years!”

-Sgt. David Northcraft, Information Technology Manager, Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office

 

We've seen this post before... But it was posted a few years back.....


The point is... Some can take it... And some can't.... If it were a Dull Laptop.. It would have melted!

 

No it wouldn't, it would've run away. Cuz you KNOW... the Allspark is being held captive in the basement at Dell. As is the T-1000.

mnem
Wait'll you see what HP paid for HAL...

 

Woah, thats just awesome, never read that before.

 

Looking at the face value pictures though, from a firefighters viewpoint, there is very little actual fire damage to the interior of the patrol car, and while it obviously got hot, the heat wasn't enough to even damage most of the plastic on the dash, therefore its not really a true test of the CF-27s fire restitive properties, I would suspect the temperature never exceeded 175 degrees inside the car, most of the black you see is smoke damage

 

The steering wheel seems also pretty intact to me.