Structural Integrity of Laptops?

d_m_i_t_r_i asks: "As a laptop-toting college student, I'm very interested in just how much abuse my laptop can stand up to. Just how many pounds of books can I stack on it? How hard can I bang the corner, before it will cave in? Things like that. Does anyone review the cases of laptops for their structural integrity? Are there any sort of statistics out there of things like strength tests, dropping from a height, etc?"

Comments

Why don't you do the tests and tell us?

[John Harrison]

I've dropped my thinkpad (actually I dropped the backpack containg my thinkpad) a few times and it still works fine. However, I am wondering how the editors ever put this up. Why would you WANT to stack books on it? Do you ask how many people the roof of your car can support before purchasing a car? Do you ask how many rocks you can throw at your TV before it breaks? My advice is to treat your laptop nicely. Also, I would guess that if you jump up and down on it it might break.

Now I feel that I have been trolled.

Re:Never stack anything on the screen side...

[tunah]

Magnezium lid (short of cracking it open, nothing will damage the screed)

Oh yes? Stick a fake story about KDE and GNOME merging on it and submit it to slashdot.

We will melt your computer.