Durabook Laptop Marketing Claims 'Destroyed'

jkwdoc writes "The crew at [H] Consumer got a hold of a Durabook sample from Twinhead and got the green light to hold Twinhead to their word about what kind of abuse the unit can withstand. Twinhead originally claimed that their unit could survive 26 drops from 29 inches. A cracked LCD and busted hard drive later, they changed their tune. Complete with video!"

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Re:Accckkkkk too many pageviews

[TubeSteak]

I'll let you in on a little secret: there are many videos, not just on the last page.

Reminds me of the time...

[Reverberant]

... back at my last job, one of my co-workers ordered a bunch of ruggedized WinCE boxes for a set of field measurements products. The units in question were supposed to survive a 4-ft drop.

One day I was walking past his office and I saw that he received the units. I stopped in, and picked up one of the units. I looked it over, and asked if these were the units in question. He replied 'yes.' I then proceeded to drop the unit I was holding on to the floor.

My colleague jumped up, yelling "what the h*ll are you doing?" I replied "the unit is supposed to be able to survive a 4-ft drop right? I wanted to see for myself."

FWIW, the unit kept on ticking....

Re:Marketing nonsense

[lakin]

Not over and over indefinitely though. They claim the lie will work 26 times, but our testing has shown it is infact significantly less than that.

Re:The MIL-STD drop test is in the shipping box

[Alpha232]

That is crazy, everyone knows that 0.001 m is the same as 0.001mm, if you look at it on paper... You must work for Verizon... And we already know that Verizon Can't Do Math .

Re:Marketing nonsense

[neongrau]

Twinhead originally claimed that their unit could survive 26 drops (of water)

from 29 inches.