T42 fell off coffee table and ...

[dimon]

So, due to the obvious clumziness and carelessness of the owner, my T42 (it was closed) fell off the table in the coffe shop.

It went down like this:
"jing..clanck..ka-boom-boom- boom.."

The audience with empathy gasped and "oh'ed" while all of this was transpiring.. Then I heard few of "ohh, that's bad"... I did concur "yes, it IS bad"

Yes, I must admit, my heart was bitting a bit faster and I broke a bit of a sweat, still, stoically I said: "well, lets see..." I opened t42, and ... you know the rest - works like a charm.

[eigh]

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!ONE



your thinkpad owned gravity.

[Navck]

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!ONE



your thinkpad owned gravity.

Very true.
Most notebooks would hit the ground, LCD break off hinges, then break into many plastic pieces

[dokein]

You can't beat an IBMs solid build & Active Protection System

[K. Eng]

Well I don't know about breaking into a lot of pieces...

The plastic cases on a lot of notebooks will crack pretty easily though. CFRP and magesium alloy can take more of a beating, which is why IBM and other manufacturers use them in business line notebooks

[jdhurst]

Been there, done that, with my T41 in London, England this past May. Nothing happened, nada. Sitting here on the commuter train in Toronto right now, and this T41 works like it always has. [censored] near perfect
... JD Hurst

By the way, I should note it was on at the time and opened (lid at 90 degrees).

[t41user]

I once tripped while carrying my T41 and watched it tumble, tumble, tumble, about 5 or 10 feet across the room. It didn't work or look any different afterward!

[vliou]

I just got off a flight from London to Vancouver...

I was a bit...woozy...so I got off my seat to go to the bathroom, put my thinkpad on my seat...

Came back, and sat down on my thinkpad...

I'm like....F**************

Well, it's perfectly OK.

[Puttagee]

Good to hear these TPs can take some abuse, I dropped a dell max. 1.5 feet, it had to go in for service. Didn't work the same since.
Here is hoping nothing happens to my TP.

[thePCxp]

One time when I was in school, I was in my keyboarding class and I put my ThinkPad on the table and while I was taking care of some other things, my ThinkPad fell to the floor (and it was in standby mode). Then, I picked up my ThinkPad from the floor, checked if there was any damage (which there wasn't), opened the LCD lid, and it still worked.

[ThinkPad]

That sure does hurt to hear. I did drop my old T-41 a couple times, and went through the same swift heartbeat, until I found out it still works like a charm.
IBM's are built tough.

[msafi]

i have an X31 which i dropped from 3.5 feet onto carpet floor and it still worked. it caused a .5 inch crack on the case but the machine still worked nicely. but i'm starting to notice that the wireless performance dropped. i'm not sure if that's because of the hit. things like that can get you paranoid.

nonetheless, if a sony or any other laptop received such a hit, it would be in its grave.

ibm ROCKS!! i hope lenovo will maintain the legend.

[Steve007]

I dropped my old T40 (not my T40p) onto a solid hard floor and all that broke was the plastic around the USB ports. Most other machines would have shattered into a million pieces

[ehsu]

One day I was carrying my bro's R51 to a meeting. The R51 was closed and put in a backpack. My cousin didn't realize the laptop was in the backpack and the zipper was still open. So he carelessly grabbed the package for me and swung it onto his shoulder. Then I heard this "cling-clang-boom" sound. The R51 fell out from his waist height to the hard concrete drive way and caused my heart skipped a few beats.

Hoping that no serious damage to the laptop, when I opened the lid and saw everything was still working as it had been, I was overjoyed with tears...

[krcmd]

Dropped mine from the space shuttle. Red hot, but worked like a charm.

[vliou]

Wouldn't be surprised

[de Siem]

Sturdy as the thinkpads are, i think it's not as sturdy as this range rover like laptop:
http://www.gobook3.com/gb3/gallery.htm

[STS06]

Haha..thats insane!...could probably stop a bullet!

[Navck]

Actually one laptop did that, one of those REALLY heavy Tobshiba Toughbooks...

But everyone else uses too much plastic and very littile titanium frames, or magesium fibers..

[smugiri]

My horror story, it's sunday morning and I am reading my email and checking on the web for schedules /locations and stuff for OctoberFest activities in the town where we live, just basically trying to set up the day. My 2 year old is right behind me calling "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy..." and he is not making any headway since I am so engrossed in getting this info.

Since I am not paying attention, he decides to take action and tosses his model VW Bettle ( made of some kind of cast metal at 1:26 scale I think, quite heavy, atleast half a pound ) at me and the "puter" as he calls it that is taking up all my attention. To tell it like a detective on on of those 70's british cops shows would (think "The Sweeney", "Dempsey and Makepeace" or "The Professionals") "... said model car travels at a decent velocity , hits wall behind said laptop at an oblique angle and bounces HARD right on to screen of said T40p ...."

... nuff said ....

.. world stops for about 20 secs and I think over and over again about the point in time when they asked "so, will you be taking the accident protection plan for this Sir, its only $199.99" and I said "Of course not, what do you take me for, a sucker?" ... and think, "well, who's the sucker now?"....

... before I realize that the things' still running fine with no apparent damage. This is yet another reminder that I should use my wife's machine and not mine to do stuff when my son is nearby. It makes me think that you have got to love the build IBM puts into these Thinkpads.

Interestingly enough, my first laptop was a 1997 Toshiba Satelite that came out much worse the first time it was in a similar accident. With the LCD gone and a replacement costing as much as a new machine, that machine stayed at home where I used it as a 'desktop' hooked up to an old monitor.

[Zak]

Fortunately, eBay has made replacing screens significantly cheaper. My T20 has taken some good hits, but the only damage was a couple small cracks in the plastic.

[t20user]

I dropped my T20 off my desk once without a problem.

So what does crack the screens in these machines? I see a lot of units on ebay that are sold with cracked screens. Do you have to throw a baseball at it?

[pphilipko]

I dropped my T20 off my desk once without a problem.

So what does crack the screens in these machines? I see a lot of units on ebay that are sold with cracked screens. Do you have to throw a baseball at it?

Sitting on it will do the trick, I presume.

[Navck]

Erm, I once slipped, one hand on table, one hand on Thinkpad, didn't fall, but noticed T43 had my hand on it
I weigh 220 pounds.
Sooo yes.

[denthorq]

Dropped mine from the space shuttle. Red hot, but worked like a charm.

My T42 was run over by a bus on freeway... Guess what? It works like a charm /nuff

Yes, IBM has the best casing quality... I 100% agree...