Ever drop your laptop?

[mikey]

I would cry if I dropped my laptop so has anyone dropped their laptop?

[gtbike72]

I did once a few weeks ago http://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=61497
$300 later and two days without my Mac I got it back

[mikey]

wow, does everything work properly?

[gtbike72]

good as new, they did a really good job and a fast turn around time for 300 bucks

[mikey]

Nice deal!

[buz-lh]

My Toshiba slid off the car seat onto the asphalt, other than a few scractches no harm thank goodness.

[bodybump]

Oh man...knock on wood...i hope not...I have mac and if drop that its like dropping my watch too... all my info's are there...

[TheDude]

A few... Company laptops though. Mostly just cracked screens, but once it killed the motherboard too.

IMO, this is par for the course. You're carrying relatively fragile technology around. If you're a true road warrior, it happens.

[Nica64]

Me never!!! but my kids did..... total lost , we ended up getting a new one. $300 to fix the Mac is a very good price.

[frostie]

Dropped mine once but it was not my fault

It was my grandmothers fault

She accidentally pushed me on her way to the kitchen

[meloncap78]

The last laptop that I dropped was my Panasonic Tough Book. Not a single thing happened hence the name. I am usually overly careful with things of that nature.

[mikey]

if I have family or friends visit I close my mac down and take it to my bedroom and place on my bed and close the door to avoid my mac from being used or ask to use it

[mikey]

by the way can't u stand on one of those tough books?

[meloncap78]

Originally Posted by mikey

by the way can't u stand on one of those tough books?

You most certainly can. I loved it God rest it's little soul.

[Ashley]

I dropped my laptop a few times, one of them I ended up breaking the disc drive. But since I took it into servicing, it works just fine :)

[Mike B]

I have never dropped my laptop (knock on wood lol), but my T61 should take the beating lol

[Bisquitlips]

Yes. No damage! HP Rocks!

[Uncle-AJ]

Originally Posted by frostie

Dropped mine once but it was not my fault

It was my grandmothers fault

She accidentally pushed me on her way to the kitchen

Is there anything you haven't dropped?

[mikey]

I put zagg on my mac cuz the aluminum is very slippery but I got a 17 inch when I had an iBook 12" I was so close to throwing it.

[Terry Newton]

My Dell XPS M170 with the 17" monitor was in a Victorinox computer case with a shock absorbing inner computer case. It was sitting on top of my big suitcase awaiting a check-in at a hotel for a conference when it did a nosedive on to the hard linoleum floor. It broke one of the little clips that close the computer. That is the extent of the damage of over a year ago and the computer works great.

Thanks be to Victorinox luggage.

Terry Newton

[Lol-x]

Western Digital now make a Hard Drive for Laptops with a free fall detector/sensor.
As soon as your laptop starts to fall the sensor parks the heads within 200 milliseconds. Cool huh
Western Digital 320gig 2.5" Black Scorpio HD with 7200 rpm.

[Ashley]

ARGH I dropped my laptop like, five minutes after I posted in this thread! Curses!

[Launch Mini]

I've dropped a clients laptop.
This was about 12 years ago, when they were really costly.
Slide right out of her truck & onto concrete.
She was then one of the first people to own a "Split screen"
That cost me a few $$$'s

[Gentleman8]

Once my shoulder strap got undone and the laptop case fell on the floor. The zipper was not closed and the laptop fell out of the bag, bounced once, and fell off the platform where I was standing down to the concrete floor about 2.5 metres below. A big chunk of the bottom left corner was broken clean. The PC still worked fine. That was a Toshiba Satellite, and it's been my brand ever since.

Toshiba also makes laptops without traditional hard drives. Storage is on internal 128 GB flash memory.