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.

My advice

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know how people will take my advice but here it is anyway. You should pay an illegal alien, like a sweaty wetback criminal to steal a few laptops Pay the mexi a few cents and do the tests on the laptops yourself.

OR

Pay a wetback to become your person slave, perferably an illegal alien female wetback, for the cunt. A midget would be best. Then pull her around by her chain while she will make sure no harm comes to your laptop.

Oh, I almost forgot to add that IT IS LEGAL IT THE US CONSTITUTION TO HAVE 1 ILLEGAL ALIEN AS A SLAVE. BUT NO MORE THAN 1.

Hope this helps!

-Your friendly neighborhood troll

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.