How Much Torture Can an Eee PC Take?
February 21st, 2008 by antCurious 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]
February 21st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Great! That’s a proper portable PC!
February 21st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I had a huge laugh! It takes a licking and keeps on ticking!
February 21st, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Great to know, jut wish the video fit on the screen…..
February 21st, 2008 at 9:41 pm
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!
February 21st, 2008 at 10:37 pm
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
February 21st, 2008 at 11:18 pm
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
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:16 am
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
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:26 am
Bad Frenchman!
Treat the EEE with the love it deserves.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:19 am
Wow! what a nutter!! I wonder what the friend he borrowed it from said?
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:43 am
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
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 am
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
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:51 am
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”.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Ouch! Hard to watch, but good to know! This little guy is tough.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
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.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
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.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Waterboard it!
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
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
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
@ lixy: waterboarding wouldn’t bother it at all, remember, waterboarding isn’t torture. It’s good for people and computers too!
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 am
Tres tres cool, and tres, tres chic!
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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…
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
The guy should have done a hard floor drop just after he left it outside for an hour hehe
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
He should have dropped the pc from the windowsill
February 24th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Not so much techno porn as techno snuff. Attempted, anyway.
February 24th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Good to know that Eee is so durable. I would never throw my Eee on the floor like that anyway
February 25th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
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).
February 25th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Seems it’s rock solid as well as heart touching…
: )
February 29th, 2008 at 9:01 am
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