Asus' Eee PC gets torture tested on video

For those that had no qualms kicking Teddy to the curb and cuddling with Asus' Eee PC throughout the night just as soon as it was released, you may want to utilize your scroll wheel right about now. For those with a tough stomach and a perverse appetite for destruction, you can most definitely stay put. In the video posted after the jump, the Eee PC is pushed from great heights onto solid floors, forced to sit in extreme temperatures and repeatedly prodded to see if it still functioned. Interested? You're just one click away from a clip sure to make gadget aficionados everywhere cringe.

[Thanks, Roman]

Tests résistance (Chocs, chaleur, froid) de l'Asus Eee
by ray2fr

[manimal @ Feb 24th 2008 9:42PM]

I think leaving out the test of being sat on by an adult, walked on, and being held at gun point is pretty disappointing....

okay the gun point is a rare circumstance, but still..

"use it like yea stole it"

[Sam @ Feb 24th 2008 9:37PM]

Thoughts:
The last heat test is meaningless. 40C is only 104F so the tester shouldn't have reacted so painfully when he touched the Asus. Most normal laptops surpass 104F internally so this is not exactly impressive.

The cold test was more meaningful because water expands when frozen. That can potentially damage the LCD, since the L stands for Liquid. LCDs are moving crystals suspended in liquid which is why they're sluggish or dim in cold weather. I don't know if the test here actually reached 32F or below.

The Asus most likely can't survive the most obvious test: Water submersion or simply getting soaked (especially when turned on). I say obvious because pouring a drink on the keyboard or getting caught in the rain is more common than many of the other scenarios.

[Leroy Vargas @ Feb 24th 2008 11:35PM]

Let's waterboard an Eee and see if it survives! (Yes, waterboarding is torture, period; just ask John McCain or Barack Obama.)

[Juaquin @ Feb 24th 2008 10:27PM]

Summary - it's performs like most laptops when dropped, except it has an SSD so there's little chance of your data being lost.

[Sam @ Feb 25th 2008 1:26AM]

Juaquin
> Summary - it's performs like most laptops when dropped, except it
> has an SSD so there's little chance of your data being lost

And it's very light at 2lbs, so there is much less impact when dropped as compared to a 6-8 lb laptop.

[Tits @ Feb 24th 2008 11:06PM]

I WANT A EEE!!! solid or not, I dont care!

[nokiarulz @ Feb 25th 2008 1:32AM]

no eee's were hurt in the making of this video ;)

[Popson @ Feb 25th 2008 2:16AM]

I was expecting him to curb stomp it or at least drop it off those stairs. Pretty pathetic video, even a 360 could survive that.

Watching that video was so irritating it actually made me want to break something... =(

[emailtabs @ Feb 25th 2008 4:35AM]

My little geeekbook has gone through more than that in normal useage!.

3 foot drop..... check
Stair bounce.... check
Stood on........ check
On for 48 hrs... check
Used as frisbee. check
Humped around london. check
Generally mistreated. check
Called a big sissy... check

Any further requests will be mooted.
(I'm not blending it or chuckin it in the freezer though!)

[marc @ Mar 5th 2008 9:21PM]

The drop tests are nice. When you think about it, it is not surprising that it survived. There's no hard drive, which makes it more reliable and less weighty. Also, the screen is set in several inches from the edge. It is impressive that there were no pieces of plastic that snapped off, but then again we could not see whether the case cracked. I wonder if the battery is held in place with a screw. It did not pop out or lose its connection, which is good.

The cold "torture" test is a joke. 1.8C! Come on that's not even winter in many parts of North America. They should have it stuck out at -15C for 2 hours and then turn it on to see if the battery still has some juice. That would simulate leaving it in a car trunk on a cold winter day or evening.

I also think they should have opened and closed the display a few hundred times, in order to see how well the hinges hold up in addition to stress testing the power jack.