Exploding ThinkPad attacks man, burns through bed
By Paul Miller 
posted Jan 19th 2008 4:49PM
posted Jan 19th 2008 4:49PM
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I was wondering when I'd see my laptop show up on the list.
@No thank You
Better yet, how about I get my grandmother to beat you to death? Get off Engadget, you stinking racist.
Oh yeah, and it annoys me when I click on a link claiming to provide information that a laptop has actually physically attacked a man, getting all worked up and excited, and then seeing that not only is the second comment I see an offensive one, but the guy has also replied to someone up top just to get heard.
We geeks don't roll like that.
@No thank You
And now I look like a complete idiot because I didn't read his blog, was quick to judge, and now apologize wholeheartedly to you before finally accepting the flaming I'm gonna get.
The second part still applies though.
And the third.
And did I mention I was really sorry?
@No Thank You:
I was about to respond in the same vein as monkfishbandana, then read the rest of his blog, and I felt a bit sick inside.
Something's fishy here. Poor form, but good point.
THATS HOW MY BED LOOKS AFTER A NIGHT WITH A FINE FRENCH GIRL.
No thank you,
Indeed, sounds like a typical Ron Paul supporter.
@No thank you:
You new to the internet or something? The stuff he posts doesn't seem that bad to me, honestly. I mean, yea, it's horrible what happened in WWII, horrible that he's denying it, but it's not like he's the first person to do something like that. At least he seems to attempt to make a logical, supported argument. Hell, our government practically does this crap on a daily basis and nobody ever gets this upset about it.
urza, wtf?!? the gypsy controversy was bad enough-- now we've got full-blown neo-nazi apologists on here? doesn't anybody moderate these comments???
@monkfishbandana
I don't really get why you accused No Thank You of being a racist. I get that you didn't read the blog before responding, but he was pointing out that the blogger was an antisemitic nutcase (who thinks Jews caused WW2 and 9/11). So even if you didn't read the blog I don't really get why you called him a racist.
Oh well, I also have no idea why No Thank You got voted down-that blogger really is a nutcase (I gave him a vote up but I guess too many people trashed it).
clearly it's not the worst stuff I've read, and I rarely ever take offense to some peon's ramblings on his blog, but I'll be damned if this prick gets any sympathy from anyone. Something about the blog annoyed the hell out of me, just the casual nature in which he tries to downplay something so horrible. "Another myth that persists as official record but which was debunked in the 80s is that 4 million jews perished at Auschwitz. In fact ... only 1 million jews perished." I swear this man must have the IQ of a radish...everyone relax it was only a million! Hi I'm Dr. Mengele Let me shove electrical wiring into your urethra and run a current through because I, "just wanna see what happens" The atrocities which those poor people faced regardless of race, or religion, and this guy has the balls to try and gain sympathy.
clearly honest mistake MonkFish, and I agree with the reponse being a dick move... normally I wouldn't do it.
Paul Miller - how did you come across this story?
Something smells fishy about this. Why does he use the fake cracked screen wallpaper?
Example:
http://www.fontblog.de/C1413545161/E1863918477/index.html
And notice how the front view of the laptop cuts off before you see the burned portion?
His broken screen is completely different. What the hell are you talking about?
Well maybe that is fishy why is there a box of matches in the pic?
http://bp0.blogger.com/_Cr8BcYZ6AJA/R5GxF5eiJAI/AAAAAAAAAA8/e8d9-3cgfU4/s1600-h/DSCF1620.JPG
i did a google search on cracked screens, one uniform picture always comes up and not the one on his laptop, but i do agree that this is FAKE, because when you look at the bottom of the laptop you notice a slight dis colorment from the actual melting point. (mental image: turned over plate and a lighter under it, smoke built up from heated source)hence the laptop was burned from the outside, plus the laptop is beat the hell up so breaking the screen was a just irrevelent detail thrown in
He has a box of cigarettes too, simply a smoker, though idk if it's real or not.
Who in their right mind would leave a running a notebook on a mattress? Darwin must be disappointed this guy escaped his clutches. Maybe next time.
What are you talking about? Since when is it a horrible mistake to leave a running laptop on a bed?? You act as if a warm laptop is as dangerous as a lit zippo.
Perhaps you're being sarcastic? Or perhaps you think yet another Darwin reference on the internet qualifies as comedy.
What's worse is he said he had a rug under the laptop and over the mattress. Yes a RUG. If true, the rug probably clogged up all the air holes. Yes, a smart man he is.
@MEAT, make sure you take pictures of your burnt house the next time you leave your laptop running on the mattress with its air vents closed.
A computer is smart enough to shut down if it overheats--even if it's on a rug. Even if it's on a mattress. Should that mechanism fail and the processor become hot enough TO SET A RUG ON FIRE, I am willing to bet that it would no longer work afterwards.
@Jon and others
Here is some technical information to attempt to convince you that an overheating computer will not burn down one's house, should you make the _unforgivable_ gaffe of leaving a computer _on_a_bed_ AND on a rug (heaven forbid).
The computer in question (ThinkPad r50e) has either an Intel Pentium M or Celeron M processor. Both have a signal from the CPU that disconnects the power should they overheat. (Intel Celeron M datasheet, pg. 17 -- ftp://download.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/30311008.pdf)
(Intel Pentium M datasheet, pg. 17 -- http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/mobile/p4p-m/p4pm_datasheet.pdf)
Modern CPUs also have other methods of protection, including monitoring by the BIOS:
tomshardware.com/2007/09/27/what_if_your_cpu_cooler_fails/page3.html
support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments_content.aspx?no=732&SLanguage=en-us
One could speculate that these systems failed in this example, causing a fire (and, somehow, leaving the computer functional--functional, and sitting next to a box of matches), but my computer is almost certainly working properly...thus, my house won't burn down the next time I leave my computer on my bed, and you won't see the photos. Sorry.
It's more likely the guy suffered spontaneous combustion than a ThinkPad did this... He probably bought a faulty machine off eBay (cracked screen, etc), fell asleep smoking, and then realised he could get an interesting blog story by telling some porkies...
That whole looks the perfect size for someone to have been sitting in, idk about a laptop fire; I think someone farted.
Laptops kind of fit on your lap- which is connected to your butt.
so it burned through his butt and now hes not only stearyl, but cant take a dump as well? Man I pity the poor guy.
"His broken screen is completely different. What the hell are you talking about?"
There are many variations on that fake broken screen. It's obviously a fake wallpaper. There's not enough light in that room to cause that much glare on the splinters. Disagree? Have the guy show different more pictures from different angles.
I think the whole thing is fishy. I think he cobbled together this story and those pics to try to get a free laptop from IBM.
So, in one picture is a box of matches and another an empty pack of cigaretts...hmmm
Exactly what portion of his laptop caught fire?
I can tell you this much- Neither the voltage regulation area, nor the battery, nor the processor!!
I call shenanigans.
Also, why does it look red-hot?
Did you look at his blog? It's a pile of racist shit.
I was about to say that too
Since it was a "Think"Pad, could this possibly have been a premeditated attack? Wah Wah.....
It's obvious the laptop was trying to get away from him.
Yeah, well, if someone were using me to post racist crap on the internet, I'd try to get away too.
A lot of stuff doesn't add up...
1. The location of the burns
2. The location of the crack on the screen in reference to the burns
3. How the section of the bed burned a lot, while the laptop's burns are in only one little section.
Don't forget the matches. That seems important too.
An antisemitic, holocaust denying, conspiracy theorist, with an empty cigarette pack, and a box of matches on a bed that looks like it got pulled out of Alcatraz, thinks his laptop burst into flames. Oh dear! He could have been burned alive!!! or worse yet, killed by the toxic fumes he claims woke him up.... what a tragedy :| poetic justice perhaps? Better yet, I'll let my grandmother beat him to death. Sorry to take the focus off the Tech, just annoys me that perhaps a questioning of this mans creditability is in order.
Not so much his credibility as his sanity. Dude's a nut. A racist nut. Every time I read the word "Zionist" I just roll my eyes and write the person that uttered it off as a retard. He probably left a smoke burning while he was writing his latest Nazi propaganda diatribe, went to take a dump (presumably for further inspiration) and came back to that. Pity he wasn't constipated...
I wouldn't put it past someone like that to stage a laptop burning to get people to read his nutcase theories. If you take a look at the racist forums out there, they're always trying to come up with ways of getting people to learn about their cause or somesuch.
Plus, quite frankly, that LCD damage definitely does not look legitimate, and the damage to the bottom of the laptop does not look like an exploding battery type of damage at all either. The huge box of matches on the bed don't help make this any less fishy either.
Chances are? This nutcase set his crap on fire to try and get attention for his "cause". Ugh, makes me sick.
"An antisemitic, holocaust denying, conspiracy theorist,"
You're the ones that are acting like conspiracy theorists. I just posted it on my blog. I didn't publish it on eEngaget causing it to be translated into 20 different languages and appear on 1000 websites over night.
Idiots. Yeh, I faked it all. I work for Dell.
me thinks he accidently burnt his mattress, then thought *gasp* I could use the matches and burn my old three year old laptop and say to IBM that it's their fault. This plan will give me a brand new laptop. So he goes on the internet, finds a picture of a cracked screen to make the story seem more plausible, and bingo!
of course nothing adds up from the look of the pictures, plus this guy seems like a racist, so EPIC FAIL
If the screen had broken from the "toss across the floor" it would have have splintered from the center of the LCD, but one of the corners... Simply faked.
Would NOT have*
Sorry, correction.
Everyone flood his Nazi website.
This was on his website: "Jews did 9/11"
"90% of the stories circulating about the treatment of jews during WW2 are total fabrications designed by the Zionists to exploit as sympathy propaganda."
What a fucking douche.
It still is on my website. And if you want to debate it more go and watch 7/7 The Ripple Effect. Its not my fault all teh terrorism on the west has been Israeli Mossad/CIA joint false-flag operations. I love how you shoot the messenger! When 9/11 went down the incumbent Director of CIA was none other the dual Israeli/US citizen George Tenet. And I could show you are every juncture a dual Israeli/US citizen - i.e. holds an Israeli and US passport.
But if its easier for you to call me, "a Nazi" then please do so and go back to Tonka Toys where you came from.
[This was on his website: "Jews did 9/11"
"90% of the stories circulating about the treatment of jews during WW2 are total fabrications designed by the Zionists to exploit as sympathy propaganda."
What a fucking douche.]
You'd say that given you don't know what you're talking about. Example: In 1989 the Russians finally released their Auschwitz camp records to the public. With that they were forced to admit that the Official record of 4 million deaths was in fact at most 1.1 million. All Holocaust Museums around the world were forced to revise their cited numbers - although Hollywood films were not recalled from circulation.
(4.0-1.1)/4.0 = 70%
This 70% of original record of deaths was false. Deaths = Suffering.
I said 90% - that's because I'm including all the other fake stories and exaggerations.
But you go back to your busy life mate. Just please refrain from persecuting people who have actually taken the time to investigate.
Without a doubt the wackiest person to be in an engadget article this year.
I have an R50e, and I've just got back from a night "on the tiles" and (obviously) unsuccessfully "found a friend". Life is pretty low, the LAST thing I need to be reading is that my seriously outdated "it's not a macbook" laptop is probably going to try and kill me. Cheers engadget... I hope you sleep soundly too.
I love the fact how Paul was also considering the credibility of this man's story, hence writing "attacks men" in such a sarcastic way, unlike all the other exploding battery stories
I love how unobservant you are. The battery didn't explode. Looked at the photos? No you havn't have you.
What suprised me most about this story was how many analytically moronic people turned up at my blog. And I was thinking, "Where the hell did this high concentration of conspiratorial retards come from?" - Engaget!
When I used a laptop, years ago, I would rest it on a thick phone book I kept in the FREEZER. I'd turn back a chunk of pages every now and then to make sure the device didn't get too WARM.
Little did I know I was keeping the houuse from BURNING DOWN.
Regarding the "real or fake broken screen" debate: Anyone notice how the whole screen seems to be broken, the signal seems to be distorted even in the non-cracked areas? But then there is the tiny white arrow on the left. It could of course be that the pointer remains in the last working corner of the screen, but this at least doesn't support the "real broken screen" argument...
I once slept with my R51e at home
(With my blankets on) (I must have been too sleepy)
And nothing happened while my computer was running Diskeeper, the computer did get warm but never anywhere near hot. I wonder did he plugged his usb vibrating rabbit in it and it got shorted(these things does happen).
But it is very unlikely that a R series will get over heat(Since it runs a poor-speed cpu from last century) but more likely the power supply (Yes it is really hot)
No the power supply was on the ground. Look guys I think the rug must have got caught up in the vents. Probably because I was kicking them in my sleep. I had blisters on my foot. I think maybe thats what woke me up but I'm not sure - you know when you wake up you're OS is booting up. But if the amygdala sends out a mayday you go into Fight - small details arn't relevant at this point.
Another reason why Macs are superior.
How many Pc notebooks have exploded in 2007?
I can guarantee no Macbooks suffered this fate.
Way to read the other comments which used logic (Like, buying a $1000 laptop vs. a $1800 one with the same specs, but the other one comes in an envelope) to find that is was a fake.
Oh god, not you again.
Mac hardware isn't magical.
An apple battery is the same as any PC battery.
I know you weren't born yet in 2006, but if you ask your parent's they will tell you that Apple had to recall batteries because some were exploding. That is because they were the same sony batteries that were used in Dell computers.
Even if this story were true, the battery and not the Thinkpad would be at fault.
I had no idea PC was a single company.
How about instead citing actual companies instead of an entire industry against a single company. Oh but that wouldn't be fair because then your point would be invalidated. :(
I took a minute and googled up macbook pro battery failure and was able to come up with simple results.
http://www.appledefects.com/wiki/index.php?title=MacBook_Pro
ffs. read up before you open your mouth and spew bad claims.
Loads of Macs have exploded, Douchebag.
I'm a Mac fan and all but you make us look even worse then we already are now! (It's in the shits)
Now, go away for several years until you've grown up.
I think the only advantage to the Macbook's hardware might be that the fan is actually located on the rear of the unit. Keeping it from being blocked as easily.
@Miles - you mactards have such a short memory. Wasn't barely a year ago that Apple had a free battery recall affecting Powerbook G4s. Then there was the whole battery swelling thing on the MacBooks. STEVE JOBS REALITY DISTORTION IN EFFECT, SON!
@Flashpoint - THIS IS HOW MY BED LOOKS AFTER A NIGHT WITH A SUPER HOT WET BURRITO.
On a serious note, IBM has some of the most stringent testing standards of any manufacturer, hands down. NASA uses them on their space missions and I wouldn't buy any other brand. This guy's probably just broke his laptop and is trying to get a free replacement.
chiggy check it:
http://jpowell.blogs.com/jason_powell_church_it/2007/02/can_your_laptop.html
Thinkpads > Macbook *
Sinai, he's an idiot who probably didn't read the article, and just commented.
By the way, comment button not working well for you? You always seem to have problems with it
Oh wait I see. You weren't responding to just Miles. My bad =(
i used to have an Averatech laptop, i loved it, except for one design blunder, a lone air vent on the bottom of the laptop. i always thought this was a horrible idea, and i would sit on my bed for hours with it. it would get hot, hot enough that i couldnt touch the bottom around the air vent without burning myself. it even peeled the paint off the bottom it got so hot. However, it never got hot enough to burn anything. Looking at this picture, there are no air vents on the bottom, so how would a rug plug air vents on the side? the only way would be if the thing was wrapped in the rug. The burn spot in his pictures, isnt in a place where an air vent would be, nor is it close to the battery. And like someone else above me stated, that is a rather large burn spot on this bed, and if the laptop started the fire, it would be burned far worse all over the laptop. And, who keeps a 10L bottle of water next to their bed? thats a huge freaking bottle of water. That's what, close to 3 gallons of water?
What are you talking about? "There are no airvents on the bottom?"????? Thats where the burn hole is!!! And if you look closer there is one more air vent down further. ON the bottom!!!! Christ man.
...and yet the laptop works without the power adapter plugged!!
Bravo!
Nice catch! He only has a headphone plugged in even though his battery supposedly exploded and now the laptop only works when plugged in. Plus the phoney broken screen, plus the matches, plus the cigarettes, plus the racist conspiracy bullcrap...
What you have here is a pathetic attempt to gain attention for his crap theories. Shame on engadget for falling hook line and sinker for this.
Please remove this post, that guy's blog is disgusting. Also, I am getting the feeling that some sort of fraud is going on with this guy. In the sense nothing adds up with his photos/story.
I don't like this kind of stuff on my RSS reader and I don't believe that Engadget supports the views of the subject's blog.
Please remove it, it makes me sick.
Atleast somebody got to see some action yesterday night.
I work on These all time time (The Laptop program we have where I work had roughly 1200 R51's which are very similar to R50's) and I'm calling BS on this one.
1) The Screen. I can't say it's fake or not, but I will say I've seen that type of damage all the time. (College Students tend to treat "Free" laptop's like trash until they get a $250 bill for the screen.) It's usually caused by direct blunt force at the point of the spiderweb. Unless he threw it at a table where the edge of it caught the lower left portion of the screen, you wouldn't get that pattern unless you punched it there or threw a dart at it. (don't ask)
2) There is absolutely nothing there that would cause a fire in that burn location. Looking at the first picture on his blog, the hard drive extends from the right of the laptop (where the tape holding it in is) all the way to the first set of air holes you see. where the air holes are is the ATA connector wired directly to the board. left of the connector is the Mini-PCI slot on the board for wireless. and the chipset down from there. Even if the motherboard somehow touched the shielding (it can if you "Pepsi Syndrome" it) you would blow the fuse on the board long before it would get literally red hot. (Just for the record, I've used Bic Lighters on that shielding to heat the Windows Sickers off the cases to put on a replacement bottom cover since IBM will not replace that sticker. I've never seen one get red hot even after 5 minutes of holding it in the same spot.)
3) The Closest battery would be the CMOS one, and it's located around that screw below the burn mark in the first Blog picture. If it blew somehow, to cause this damage the keyboard would have melted first. The main battery is in the back of the computer (it's the plastic part with the two vertical nubs on it on his last blog pic)
4)If he was just using the battery. It's virtually impossible. The battery would heat up rapidly under the load and the battery heat sensor would trigger complete battery isolation and system shutdown. (it's built in the battery itself. That's why only one IBM went boom after a drop when Dell's lit up like firecrackers on the desk) On AC it's possible, but at that point either the fuse would blow or the power socket wires would melt.
5) even if the stars aligned and The Laptop was the cause, It would have never caused that much damage to the bed. And if it did, a lot more of the laptop would be melted.
"I work on These all time time (The Laptop program we have where I work had roughly 1200 R51's which are very similar to R50's) and I'm calling BS on this one."
1)"you wouldn't get that pattern unless you punched it there or threw a dart at it. (don't ask)"
There was a coffee table with sharp corners right in the direction I threw it. It was on the ground at the coffee table. So that must have been it. What a bummer. I was pretty disappointed about the screen given that the rest still worked.
2)"the hard drive extends from the right of the laptop (where the tape holding it in is)"
I lost the screw for the cover. About 5 screws have fallen out of the bottom of this laptop over time. Still missing.
"all the way to the first set of air holes you see."
Are they inlet or outlet?
"on the board for wireless."
It was wireless connected.
"I've never seen one get red hot even after 5 minutes of holding it in the same spot.)"
O.k.
3)"The Closest battery would be the CMOS one, and it's located around that screw below the burn mark in the first Blog picture."
If it blew would the computer still start up? Cause it still starts up fine.
4)"If he was just using the battery."
It was on AC.
"On AC it's possible, but at that point either the fuse would blow or the power socket wires would melt."
right? And?
5) "even if the stars aligned and The Laptop was the cause, It would have never caused that much damage to the bed."
Thats where you left your field of expertise mate. You're not a fire scientist nor a bed technition. I WAS THERE. The hole moved incredibly fast. I personalyl was stunned and went into panic mode - thats why I threw the laptop. And also, you just contradicted youself - above you say that you have hit the casing with a lighter for 5 minutes and it never melted and never got hot.
Stick to your field mate. See what happens when you venture out of it? Logic goes out the window.
Ah, detectives..
This is like a game of clue!
It was the racist, with the matches, in the bedroom!
Laptop heat hurts in other ways, too:
http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/10/24/will-geeks-become-an-endangered-species/
Wait a minute. Did this guy say he left his laptop on and ON his bed while he went to sleep on the other end?
With a rug over it. He's a complete moron! Read his other posts if you don't believe me!
Oh and read the comments while you're at it
I am just disappointed with engadget for not doing the slightest bit of research into this guys claim. Even a cursory glance at this guys blog reveals him as a holocaust denying antisemitic nut job, probably trying to get some money from lenovo.
Oh I like the guys who use non-sequitur to deny my story about what happened. Lets see: [I am a "holocaust denier", therefore the story about what happened to my Thinkpad is a lie.] lol. Thats what I call "jew rationale". Oh yeh, and therefore also I'm an "anti-semite" lol.
But I bet these same guys have no trouble with computer programming which demands strict logic. Its called Cognitive Dissonance.
lenro? Mate whats with the non-sequitur? "The guy is a holocaust denier therefore his laptop story is a lie"?????
Yeh, I get it. I suppose you agree that Holocaust deniers are criminals and should stay in prison where they belong? You're allowed to question anything in the west but not just one thing: If you publish a book questioning anything about the holocaust, taking away from any of the ""historical misery" of the Holocaust story, then in many western countries you will be censored and/or thrown in prison. Now why would a story that is true get you in prison for questioning it? I'm allowed to question Jesus. I'm allowed to be an atheist. In many muslim countries you're not allowed to question Mohammed. In many western countries you're not allowed to question the Jew.
I don't know why the person who posted this story here implied that the battery exploded. You can see from the photo that the heat has come from the airvent somehow. The laptop was fine like that for 4 weeks and I didn't even have it on sleep mode.
Yeh I'm lucky. And yeh it would have been ironic for a holocaust denying cyber-activist to be gassed to death by his own tool of active denial. Sorry for you Shindler's List fans.
And to the guy that said "I'll get my grandmother to beat you to death" - Tell me, how did you grandmother escape the gas chambers? And did she see them did she? Something I have noticed about the modern day self-proclaimed jew is that their entire identity, the core of how they see themselves in the world and who they are is entirely and irreproachably defined by the Holocaust story. it is impertive to their own sense of moral justification in everything that they do that they remain a member of a group who claims to be the biggest victims of the 20th century - and the saddest irony of that is that the so called "jews" commited the greatest evil in the 20th century mankind has ever witnessed.
"What you have here is a pathetic attempt to gain attention for his crap theories. Shame on engadget for falling hook line and sinker for this."
Does Engadget test computers? Do they have a forensic lab or outsource they trust? I will send the laptop to them. All I will keep is my HD.
That will shut all you morons up who suffer extreme illogical metacognitive incompetence.
lol. Hey everyone, you know why Macbook Air is the ad on top of this story? Because Macbook Air doesn't have a user replaceable battery!
And so you know why the blogger here at engadget falsely titled the story to imply my laptop's battery exploded? yep, you got it.
I work on These all time time (The Laptop program we have where I work had roughly 1200 R51's which are very similar to R50's) and I'm calling BS on this one.
1)There was a coffee table with sharp corners right in the direction I threw it. It was on the ground at the coffee table. So that must have been it. What a bummer. I was pretty disappointed about the screen given that it still worked.
2)"the hard drive extends from the right of the laptop (where the tape holding it in is)"
I lost the screw for the cover. About 5 screws have fallen out of the bottom of this laptop over time. Still missing.
"all the way to the first set of air holes you see."
Are they inlet or outlet?
"on the board for wireless."
It was wireless connected.
"I've never seen one get red hot even after 5 minutes of holding it in the same spot.)"
O.k.
3)"The Closest battery would be the CMOS one, and it's located around that screw below the burn mark in the first Blog picture."
If it blew would the computer still start up? Cause it still starts up fine.
4)"If he was just using the battery."
It was on AC.
"On AC it's possible, but at that point either the fuse would blow or the power socket wires would melt."
But they are at the back near the battery.
5) "even if the stars aligned and The Laptop was the cause, It would have never caused that much damage to the bed."
Thats where you left your field of expertise mate. You're not a fire scientist nor a bed technition. I WAS THERE. The hole moved incredibly fast. I personalyl was stunned and went into panic mode - thats why I threw the laptop. And also, you just contradicted youself - above you say that you have hit the casing with a lighter for 5 minutes and it never melted and never got hot.
Stick to your field mate. See what happens when you venture out of it? Logic goes out the window.
This was meant to be a reply to DeathLizard. See the other comment - I reposted.
For the record: I would buy another Thinkpad, especially an old model
1.Because they don't heat up and when their vents are free of dust
build up they are cool enough to sit on your lap (you need to get
them service to get the naval fluff out)
(2)Because they have the toughest cases and really can be chucked
around
(3)Because were made for executive fleets for large corporations and
this means they most likely don't have backdoor spyfirmware in them
(because big
corporations would check) -
(4)because they don't have onboard mics and
cameras which can be used to spy on you by the fascist NSA and their
(5)Because they are dead quiet which means I have room to hear if Blackwater goons have located me, slipped past my security, and are trying to pick my lock.
Hey, you forgot the best thing about ThinkPads: they don't get built by jews..
I bet he was trying to run Crysis when that happened
这个事情能怪IBM吗？他为什么不到水下去用呢？又好像买了车，不好好开，非要去撞火车，给撞死了，能抱怨汽车厂家安全性不好吗？