Funny torture test video

[UMPC2024]

These guys just go on a T410
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIa4q5s6RlA

[Pokrzept]

Nice video you've found out there in the e-space. I'd love to see such a test on any newer unit, especially on x40 or x50 series ... oh wait this piece of junk is missing roll cage frame and wouldn't last half of that wieght...

[UMPC2024]

Not to mention that most of the standard spec ones are missing UltraBay drives. Real Apple-like move there Lenovo, for those who don't.

[FryPpy]

Cool
Now i know that my 410 can be usefull on kitcen like a cutting board;)

And one more video about other Thinkpad torture - it is old T42.
Conclusion - if your car have broken and you need to stop it on hill - use your thinkpad (or a handbrake;)

[UMPC2024]

Cool video, looks like you indeed can't kill a classic.

[kony]

Finally, a video that shows how (not) durable are the screens on thinkpads, which i always suspected, but I wouldn't test it myself. The video was quite boring and staged so as not to break the laptop up until the moment when a guy jumps on it and breaks it. It can't hold a human on itself after all.

Better than all the other 'torture test' videos of thinkpads I have seen before, because the rest was staged up until the very end. I always found funny how people stand on thinkpads, but always carefully with both legs in a way that distributes weight equally, never with one leg, what would most likely happen if someone stand accidentally on a laptop in real life. Oh, and the videos where they pour water on laptops, but slowly in small amounts, and it's always water. I bet if you knocked over a cup of coffee on a thinkpad it wouldn't happen to be liquid resistant after all.

[FryPpy]

kony You are very seriously treat notebook (and ThinkPad) crash tests. Thinkpads is not Toughbooks (GeTaks etc). It is business, but not military notebook. An main concept of Thinkpad is not to be unbreakable - is to protect valuable (for business) data (in price of damaged screen, keyboards or other parts).

if someone stand accidentally on a laptop in real life.

If someone accidentally shoot his leg while programming C++ It is not normal to stand on notebook. Any torture test begins with only one leg. But main thing is to place leg near the edge of the lid. But standing on one leg at the edge is very uncomfortable thing - so the next leg is added to stand still;) There is no unbreakable things - the question is the meter of ruggedness.

Oh, and the videos where they pour water on laptops, but slowly in small amounts, and it's always water. I bet if you knocked over a cup of coffee on a thinkpad it wouldn't happen to be liquid resistant after all.

Ok let get some coffee to X230 Only bad thing with feeding ThinkPads with not pure water that keyboard (and palm rest) become sticky and it is not comfortable to make rest tests with it Ofcourse after drying sticky keyboard become unusable and it is time to wash it completely in water (I like this torture best

[Norway Pad]

Interesting to see what a Thinkpad can withstand when it can be sacrificed for destruction. Even though this is just in theory, as most of this is outside the range of what a Thinkpad is designed to withstand. Being dropped is probably within the scope. I once dropped my T43 on the floor from 5 feet up, and it bluescreened but survived. But I wouldn't have attempted that stunt over again, as such shocks might introduce weaknesses and cracks in soldered joints that can cause faults to occur weeks or months later.

Anyway, I would loved to see how a laptop that's designed to be more or less indestructible, like the Toughbook, would handle treatment like this. Back in the US my wife worked as an IT at the local sheriffs office, and it was some stories about what Toughbooks were put through and survived. Many times it came down to officers simply forgetting and leaving them around, resulting in them being dropped, thrown around and even driven through the car wash stuck under the light bar.

[UMPC2024]

Yeah, I wouldn't like to see if the qualifications hold up, but will be glad when they do. Although just recently I put a stapler on the top of my closed T430 lid and stapled paper three times before I realized what I was doing (the glory of having a cramped desk space).
@Norway Pad, when you listed the events that happened to a ToughBook, I'm assuming that they all survived? I'll be amazed at if they actually survived a car wash, although I'm not exactly sure if they are designed to be waterproof or not.

I guess the only downside to having your ThinkPad (or any other computer) survive a coffee spill is to deal with old coffee smells whilst typing. Unless of course, we just douse the keyboard with some water to wash it out.

Now I wonder if any of these newer models can hold up to anything like this. Probably not.

[Norway Pad]

@Norway Pad, when you listed the events that happened to a ToughBook, I'm assuming that they all survived? I'll be amazed at if they actually survived a car wash, although I'm not exactly sure if they are designed to be waterproof or not.

It did survive. I asked my wife, and she said the sergeant left his CF28 on the roof of his car when he went down to the drive through car wash two blocks away. It danced across the roof while he drove, got stuck under the light bar, and he didn't see it before he came back to the office. So one embarrassed sergeant came back in with a dripping wet CF28, but it actually turned back on and worked. The funny thing is that they used cherry scented soap at the car wash, so his laptop smelled like cherries afterwards, and it all became a joke.

[FryPpy]

I'm not exactly sure if they are designed to be waterproof or not.

Officially Panasonic haven't state (i haven't find any documents) that it was designed for underwater work - and in manuals they warns about using it in water (electro shock warning) (but i believe this is due AC power adapter). But you can see this. ToughBooks are great notebooks, and there are many ToughBook torture tests on the net.

PS (OffTopic)
Big thanks to kony. Before now (my first post in this thread) i haven't heard any about Pathlogic. But after reading your review I am very impressed (by game itself). Do you know that they (Ice Pick) doing remake of pathologic now?

[UMPC2024]

@NorwayPad, thanks for sharing that interesting story.

Speaking of ToughBooks, this ToughPad also seems to impress as the screen doesn't get damaged at all during this.