ThinkPad T400s Gets Run Over by 13-ton Truck

Lenovo wanted to see how tough the ThinkPad T400s was, so we ran it over with a vehicle. A standard car was not enough. Instead, we had to pick a 26,000 lb. DOW (Doppler on Wheels) that the Center for Severe Weather Research uses in their daily work. The machine did suprisingly well. Though it did not start up again, the data was intact.

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[rolexkkk]

Thinkpad is a tank! Whatever Lenovo or IBM, I run the Lenovo thinkpad T61 for 5 days without shut down, it never stuck! love it !

[ThinkPadToday]

I am going to stick my neck out here and guess that the T400s will come in at below the $900 price point.

[remirap]

wasnt full 26,000 b/c other wheels were resting on the road. and cut video after running laptop over dose not prove anything

[R3Cat]

@MrTpengineer yeah. xD funny though.

[MrTpengineer]

@clubpenguin1help Hey everyone is human, you probebly forget sometimes too.

[clubpenguin1help]

He's a trained professional yet he forgot where to unscrew to get the HDD out.

xD

[joeyhcmc]

Love my IBM T43's. I've got 2 of them.

[barchelona8110]

i can kill it with ak47

[ztbell21]

@ztbell21 Even though the display was cracked and the motherboard was damaged, the ThinkPad did quite well under the 13-ton DOW. I would've expected much worse (damaged HDD, exploded battery, etc...) from it or any laptop under those conditions. And yes, do a repeat of the test with various semis and tanks. Also, bring in your competition (APPLE, DELL, HP) to show them how to be harder on theirs.

I also know typical cell phone (some do better than others) can't even survive a 3-foot drop!

[speedpenguin01]

@optimistsRUS

I understand your point, but just look at 2:22 (even the guy says "another identical t400s is already disassembled") right there and then the tech popped the drive knowing the location of the test t400s drive bay so I don't understand how could the tech missed the drive bay on the crushed t400s at 1:33 knowing he had one already disassembled at 2:22? The video is full frame without any timeline either (skipping frames or video parts in the timeline). Just an observation.

[optimistsRUS]

@speedpenguin01

Don't be too hard on him, almost all Thinkpads before this one (T40, T41, T42, T43, T60, T61, X60, X60s, X61, X61s, T400, W500 and I'm sure a bunch of others) had the hard drive on that side where this technician was going first, i.e. on the right side of the palm-wrist when you're typing.