How Much Torture Can an Eee PC Take?

February 21st, 2008 by ant

Curious as to how much torture your Eee PC can take? Want to see what happens if you continually drop the poor little device? Check out this video, which shows how durable the Eee PC really is. Thanks to one brave soul out there, you don’t have to test it on your prized Eee PC. It faired quite well!

[via Eeesite and AsusEeeHacks]

29 Responses to “How Much Torture Can an Eee PC Take?”

  1. Mark0 Says:

    Great! That’s a proper portable PC!

  2. ballpark Says:

    I had a huge laugh! It takes a licking and keeps on ticking!

  3. eeeenvy Says:

    Great to know, jut wish the video fit on the screen…..

  4. platinum Says:

    haha. great vid. i cringe when i see a piece of technology fall to the ground. this was no different, but this technology doesn’t burst into a million pieces!

  5. teabagginz Says:

    I was cringing whenever he dropped it with the screen open… good to know that it can handle some abuse.

    digg it! http://digg.com/hardware/Asus_EeePC_torture_test

  6. hainaku Says:

    hmmmmm i think the video doesn’t show the whole thing. you see, the guy got drunk, smashed and burned his eee to pieces - now he’s selling it on ebay:

    http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Smashed-Eee-PC_W0QQitemZ170193965793QQihZ007QQcategoryZ16159QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

  7. Happy eeepc user Says:

    At 1:50 … the case flipped open on the second 1m drop .. and someone in the background muttered something … “comment … ” (in french I think) … *grin*

    at 2:50 … someone hummed the dig-dug’s death tune … hahaha

  8. Mitch Says:

    Bad Frenchman!
    Treat the EEE with the love it deserves.

  9. Stephen Says:

    Wow! what a nutter!! I wonder what the friend he borrowed it from said?

  10. Skree Says:

    wow.. was cringing and cringing when they kept dropping it.. Wasn’t surprised at the temperature tests.. Do a submerge in water test to see how waterproof it is you crazy crazy frenchman.. lol

  11. flomar Says:

    haha,

    yeah i did know that on the first day when i dopped it as i was open and running from the table pretty hard ;)

  12. BAM Says:

    If people *really* want to know how much punishment an eeepc can take, they should search this forum for threads along the lines of, “HELP! I bricked my eeepc!” I noticed two new ones only this morning (UTC-5) “I nearly cooked my Eee!” and “EeePc not starting”.

  13. anon Says:

    Ouch! Hard to watch, but good to know! This little guy is tough.

  14. Etruscan Says:

    Very expensive test I must say!

    If he didn’t like the eeepc that much, should have donated to someone else. Whom would appreciate with love and care!

  15. misecia Says:

    how can he do any damage to it with those poncy little nudges and pushes, not real world punishment. lets see it get thrown across the room, dropped down stairs and stood on.

  16. anon Says:

    In the first week of its life, I tripped over its power cable and sent it flying about a metre onto a stone floor. I almolst cried. It still works, but creaks a bit when you gently bend it corner to corner. Is this normal? I guess I’ve sheared a pillar that the screws screw into.

  17. lixy Says:

    Waterboard it!

  18. kyhm Says:

    This is one of the major reasons I’ll be buying an eee the instant Asus release one with a larger screen.

    That said, it doesn’t surprise me much. Eight years back I worked for NTS Computer Systems, where we made two lines of diskless laptops for the education market. In terms of mechanical shock these machines survived flights down staircases, out windows, etc. The best case involved a student who threw one out a third-story window onto concrete; the teacher told him to go get it and finish his assignment. After they put a few of the keys back on, it worked fine. More info: http://www.applefritter.com/node/9399

  19. Mukasey Says:

    @ lixy: waterboarding wouldn’t bother it at all, remember, waterboarding isn’t torture. It’s good for people and computers too!

  20. altcountryman Says:

    Tres tres cool, and tres, tres chic!

  21. LayZ Says:

    Kyhm - that guy says he got his thing for 6$
    I think a sandwich is more expensive nowadays…
    Just for the fun of throwing a working electronic device I’d buy it :)

    The video is… techno porn…

  22. Whisper450 Says:

    The guy should have done a hard floor drop just after he left it outside for an hour hehe

  23. LayZ Says:

    He should have dropped the pc from the windowsill :)

  24. Dave Van Domelen Says:

    Not so much techno porn as techno snuff. Attempted, anyway.

  25. lops Says:

    Good to know that Eee is so durable. I would never throw my Eee on the floor like that anyway :)

  26. tanyafish Says:

    I’ve dropped mine three times so far - once closed and off, twice open and running. It’s fallen from table height and sofa height onto carpeted floor and been fine.

  27. LayZ Says:

    I’ve acidentally spilled water on mine’s keyboard (not a full mug but still). :)
    And I’ve accidentally pull-dropped it from 1m height (headphone cables sticked in unknowing victims ports are vicious).

  28. spider Says:

    Seems it’s rock solid as well as heart touching…

    : )

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