puddles [OT]

puddles [OT]

Posted Dec 19, 2006 3:55 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
In reply to: The next document format battleground by csamuel
Parent article: The next document format battleground

I wonder who will be the first high profile person to fall victim to the scenario of "I dropped my laptop in a puddle and destroyed it and now I can't read the backups of my documents" ?

Laptops appear to be considerably more robust against such treatment than one might naively expect. A cow-orker has twice drowned his (left sitting in a backpack with several inches of water at the bottom), and after drying it out a bit, he found that it continued (and continues) to run. The only real drawback was the water that seeped into the LCD-display layers (ugly but readable display), and even that went away after a few weeks.

Of course, if the laptop happened to be running at the time, or if its battery happened to live on that side of the case, then maybe it wouldn't have been so pretty...

Greg

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