Re: [Hampshire] Macbook Air (ok,it's not factory linux but y…

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Author: Sean Gibbins
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Macbook Air (ok,it's not factory linux but you can install it)
Stuart Matheson wrote:
>
>>> I didn't realise that "surviving being sat on" was part of the design
>>> spec for laptops nowadays :)
>>
>> I think that there's a reasonable enough chance of that happening for it
>> to be included. The places I've seen an average home user leave a laptop
>> they've got to survive sittings/standings/kickings/droppings.
>
> Come to think of it a friend of mine had to try to rescue the contents
> of a laptop hard disk. Turns out the people had gone on holidays and,
> worried about losing the computer during a break-in, decided to "hide"
> it. In the empty, top loading washing machine. I think you can guess
> what happened next...


See, if that had been a Dell it would have resumed...

;o)

Sean

PS I don't believe that for a minute!