ThinkPad Torture Test: Freefall (System On)

[Hadesnr]

this is extraordinary

[Themawechsel]

it's still thinking



[Graouh42]

It's all about heads, the tips reading/writing stuff. If DD is fixed by screws, heads are 'floating' by essence and when there's a shock, unsecured heads can touch the surface and mark it badly.

To prevent that, they placed captors, accelerometers in fact, to detect free falls so when you drop it, heads are folded back until laptop is stable again. Rotation isn't stopped, no need to, plus it would be quite a violent move.

[Arakmatzu]

Sending this HP Pavilion to the Junkers now! ThinkPad can handle those though bus rides....

[inkjet224]

Just casually loads solitaire like a boss!

[BoPunk]

One hell of a way to shuffle a deck of cards!

[opticalmice]

Is that an T410?

[BijeloNW]

a laptop never falls like a cat. i think most of notebooks can do that if it comes to free machine kontrolled cat fall.

[Skiks]

@BijeloNW Depends. A fall like that can damage a hard drive since a hard drive is always spinning when a laptop is in use.

[BijeloNW]

@Skiks you could be right however hdd spinning horizontally and fall occurs vectrally so hdd has at least 6 screws that holds the hdd dics tight and secure. i don't think hdd can crush like that.

[PhysicsTowerTeam]

@Skiks I don't know if you heard of this, but Lenovo implements a system where it detects when it's falling or in 'high movement' and automatically stops the HDD to prevent damage. Just an FYI :)

They go great lengths to protect your data, if your laptop doesn't make it. 

[saifulisfree]

First thing to do after your notebooks falls 10 feet: Make sure spider solitaire works.

[adidasx45]

this is so fake, the machine let go of the laptop like a foot away from the ground...why don't you make a video with real free fall and no machine guiding it? cuz the laptop would break if you did?

[Toomuchtime5798]

@adidasx45 No, it wouldn't. ThinkPad mobos have insane amounts of protection and the HDD shuts down when it reaches dangerous speeds.

[honzoid]

@adidasx45 lol, dude, physics. The machine actually throws TP, so it hits the ground with higher speed than if machine simply droped it. ;)

[adidasx45]

@honzoid lol the machine could easily have been controlled to fall more slowly than just the acceleration of gravity, and it's not clear here (and notice how a large portion of the overall machine is never shown), so i'd err on the suspicious side :)

[mireka]

thats not even freefall

[joeyhcmc]

Crazy genius...

[08joejoi]

I can still play cards? YESSSSS...

[xxxfestivaxxx]

i wouldn't play cards at a time like that

[TheSLSAMG]

the reason its OK is because the thinkpad has an accelerometer which determines if the laptop is going to fall. it then shuts down the hard drive to prevent damage

[foca2002]

I dropped my X61 some years ago it hit the floor with the left corner.

Not even a scratch.

[DJOY298]

I don't understand why they don't drop it on a corner. Usually if it's carried its closed and more serious damage occurs on the corner because the energy is dispersed through a small surface area. It would almost be a guarantee that dropping it 7 feet on its corner, battery side, will damage the screen.

[throxnet]

@DJOY298 because you just answered it yourself, tard.

[DJOY298]

@throxnet you didn't answer the question nor is it relavant. Since the laptop has a gyroscope it already parks the hard drive needle when any acceleration is detected. This test is pointless since nobody carrying it or moving it will ever dop it flat. Give it to 8 year to test. terd....

[throxnet]

@DJOY298 tard

[MrMrPhantomz]

Well ya, but it's the matter of the harddrive not being broken. The protective casing may crack but no matter nearly what way you drop it, it will have about the same kinetic force..

[8Arthur8ful]

good job lenovo !

[bombardior]

why dont they just drop it... instead of have the machine lower it....

[clubpenguin1help]

@bombardior because the conditions will not always be the same if it is dropped by a human. if it's dropped by a machine at a specific distance there will be no variables

[FaintingmAchine]

@clubpenguin1help but if you drop it in real life, it would always be in different conditions..

[sousukes7]

@FaintingmAchine not really , believe me i use thinkpads a lot

[juanda1296]

nice idea when your computer falls in the floor the best thing that you can do is playing the cards

[srxtr]

How about dropping it on one of its corners instead of flat on its bottom

[usptact]

@srxtr

This is one of basic tests i suppose.

[AppleUploader]

eww think pad is gross

[AppleUploader]

@AgentCROCODILE ;D

[tf88888888]

@AppleUploader a thinkpad is a man's laptop.

[guerrillaman69]

i know which laptop i'm buying next

[FoodUser]

The screen didn't even budge!

[HybridPineapple]

Put less sturdy laptops to the test!

[Rundfunk90]

it looked like he landed on something soft.. not really convinced :\

[elpaoloxmaiden]

despues de haber visto esto me enamore mas de mi portatil!

[HWGuyEG]

Must be a SSD model.

[zeonbub]

It may be tough but it sure is ugly

[psptechnologypsp]

@zeonbub The new ones aren't so bad. I have a Edge 14 and it looks nice.

[coolkids3511]

+1!

[krazyhorse004]

@coolkids3511 +(1000)^1000...........Can a macbook air do that?

[schmatzler]

It doesn't fall onto the blank metal there, as it would in real life. Stone, glass, sand...I think, this would at least scratch the hull or give some serious damage even to this models.

And if you let a Thinkpad fall down, would it always land on the lower side? I don't think so =)

[Jaxo]

Maybe is a CAThinkpad, XD

[superjakke1]

catpad :D sweet

[Tech4U247]

@Jaxo funnily enough they designed the pads at the bottom like cats feet

[yak2be]

That's probably not the only test they are doing.

[astrorider]

lol I don't think thinkpads would dive a 6243D

[psptechnologypsp]

@astrorider /watch?v=0Rg7tKJWk2w&feature=r­elated

[bosnaman]

j've just read your comment... well it's true it doesnt always fall on the lower side, at a friend of mine it fell down just on the edge from 1.5 meters.

well it smashed some of the metal inside but it still works fine ;-)

[tcpnet]

cool.. virtually indestructible