I Just Dropped My Laptop!!!!!!

^Mike^ · 06-21-2006, 09:08 PM

I just dropped my laptop trying to bring it back to my desk, i had it turned on and the LCD was up, and the hard drive was spinning. When i was trying to bring my laptop to my desk i knocked something off the wall, not thinking I had a laptop in my hand i grabed the thing on the wall, there went my laptop.
It dropped from a few feet off the ground (i was standing up and i'm 6 foot). So then i see it in slow motion falling upside down LCD first as it was open. Then i hear a *WHAMMM* and the lcd lid closed as it impacted the hard floor.
Right about now I start shaking lol, as i go to pick it up i notice it was sleeping which ment the hard drive must have shut off??? So i lift it off the ground pull the lid back up and it resums from sleeping to my desktop with AIM open. WHEWWW i thought to myself, i further examined the laptop and not a scrach is on the thing!!!! Somehow it must have sensed it was falling and shut the hard drive down, because it would be hard to believe a spinning hard dirve could survive such a drop. Well that was the excitement of the day for me

Anyone else have an experience like this?

^Mike^ · 06-21-2006, 09:09 PM

Please don't post in my other thread as it is a double, i got a error message saying the thread didn't go threw so i reposted it and now there is 2???

NeXuS · 06-21-2006, 09:11 PM

did the lcd got damaged in anyway??

^Mike^ · 06-21-2006, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by NeXuS

did the lcd got damaged in anyway??

nope i was amazed it didn't!, i got soo luckey!

jac006 · 06-21-2006, 09:20 PM

What kind of labtop is it? make/model/year?

Trivium Nate · 06-21-2006, 09:22 PM

Damn dude what kind of laptop do you have and what are the specs lol indestructibale lol ive never ever dropped my laptop

MarxSoccer · 06-21-2006, 09:31 PM

Yeah I've heard of alot of newer laptops doing that, sensing the fall

DJ-CHRIS · 06-21-2006, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MarxSoccer

Yeah I've heard of alot of newer laptops doing that, sensing the fall

All of the IBM ones do, and alot of panasonic ones.

^Mike^ · 06-21-2006, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by jac006

What kind of labtop is it? make/model/year?

it's a HP pavillion ze4540 it's going on 3 years old this year, 512mb ram, ATI graphics card, 2.4ghz processor.

GlasseyeUK · 06-22-2006, 12:41 AM

Damn, I would of been having palpitations, but I remember an advertising campaign, I think it was IBM that said their laptops were designed to shut down when they were dropped.