NC10 survived a 90cm drop on stone floor

I was charging my NC10 and tripped over the powercord, causing it to fall from a table about 90cm straight on to a stone floor.

It was damaged. The silver hinges were split and the powerbutton did not function anymore. After that I opened it up and to my surprise I was able to click the hinges back together and restore the powerbutton to it's original position. After putting the screws back in everything functioned as normal, to my relief.

 

I think you make it sound a lot less complicated than it was..

Re-clickable hinges ..I like this. This should be implemented in more notebook designs.

 

Nice to hear from you about this drop test. It can't get much harder than a stone floor. Photos?

Was it the hinges or just the covers over the hinges?

John

 

Wow.

One word: Lucky.

 

That's kind've funny lol.

 

I did not take any photos.

It was the shiny plastic bits that were split. I guess that is the cover of the hinges.

 

Any news on the harddrive in it?
Did it have a free fall sensor, and did it trip during the fall?

I am glad that your NC10 is still functioning properly.
It may be best to run scandisc to make sure that the drive is still working nominally.

K-TRON

 

I deduce that the computer was off at the time of the incident.

John

 

Correct.

It has a Hitachi 5k320 160GB in it and it seems to work fine. Haven't run scandisc.

 

Yeah you might wanna run scandisc just to make sure..

If it everything still works then the NC10 passed the drop test. +durability points

 

lol another Pro to add inside of the already huge list that the NC10 has.