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Laptop resilience

Started by phildawes · 9 months ago

This morning (like most mornings) I was doing a bit of last-minute-hacking in the station waiting for the tube. The carriage looked pretty empty when it arrived, and so rather than suspend the laptop I just picked it up and grabbed my bag. Unfortunately I then proceeded to trip over my bag str ... Continue reading »

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  • The resilience of laptops never ceases to amaze me.
    To qualify this: I have a bit of experience when it comes to mistreating laptops; I dropped my sony x505 down the stairs a few years back (carpetted stairs mind you, but it still bounced 3 times without breaking). My last work laptop got nicked. Then there was the orange juice incident.
  • x40s are pretty hard built. Hope Lenovo do keep up the built quality in the new ones.

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