Is opening the display 180 degrees harmful?

[finetuned]

Hi,

I've been using my T60p with the screen open 180 degrees and set up vertical against the wall behind my desk. I love it this way, because it hardly takes up any space and the display is at a perfect height.

After doing this for a few weeks, my LCD monitor broke, resulting in weird stripes and color shifts for the bottom 2/3rds of the screen. I got it repaired under warranty so no big deal. (Originally, I thought it was the Graphics Card's fault, but it turned out to be the LCD panel.)

Anyway, does anybody know if this positiion is harmful for the notebook? One thing I notice, is at the point where the wide flat 'cable' enters the main body of the notebook, the plastic top lifts a bit, as if the cable is actually a little short and is stretched out, pushing the plastic body cover up.

Should I not be doing this?

[NathanA]

It should be just fine; I do it all the time on my T60. If the display wasn't meant to bend back 180 degrees, then there would be some kind of physical stopper preventing you from moving it to that position (like on the 3000 N series). Also, I don't think IBM/Lenovo would have created gallery images such as this one to promote/market their products if they weren't supposed to be used that way!

Rest assured that yours didn't break because you were moving the display to the 180-degree position.

-- Nathan

[finetuned]

Great to hear! Thanks