Most laptops are treated well by their owners.
Occasionally, accidents happen, or laptops are mishandled, and they quickly start to look and feel “aged”.
On one occasion, I saw a laptop that obviously had a hard life.
The laptop had some unusual problems:
- The power socket felt loose when the power was plugged in.
- Some keys on the keyboard would sometimes not work.
- The power button had “lost” its LED backlight.
- The CD/DVD drive would sometimes “disappear” from windows vista.
- It recently had its hard drive replaced by another repairer.
- I needed to re-installing vista, and the customer asked me to re-install office 2007… But i found the CD was scratched… I couldn’t install office.
- The owner had another laptop… The keys in the middle of the keyboard (clustered in a circle… About the size of a fist) were about 2 mm lower than the rest of the keyboard!
All this made me think: there is probably a market for rugged laptops that can take some abuse… Both hardware, and some kind of self-healing software.
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