Most extreme places you have brought your thinkpad to

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tyanlion · #1 Post by **tyanlion** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:59 am

After watching the national geographic producer bring his thinkpad to K2 in thinkpad legends video site i was wondering what other extreme locations had the thinkpad gone to.

So now is your chance to share with us your adventures with your thinkpad. Did you bring it to a desert , antarctica , etc...? Share with us your experience.

Manarius · #2 Post by **Manarius** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:41 am

Most extreme place my laptop has been is my car. I'm sure it will see more action later in life (it's a college laptop right now).

z_24 · #3 Post by **z_24** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:05 pm

I think there are some thinkpads in the International Space Station.

#4 Post by **RonS** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:07 pm

I work with people who take Thinkpads to the bottom of the ocean in manned submersibles.

#5 Post by **tomh009** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:45 pm

Taking my X31 though the Serengeti doesn't sound that impressive now, does it?

pianowizard · #6 Post by **pianowizard** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:43 pm

z_24 wrote:I think there are some thinkpads in the International Space Station.

Indeed, several A31p's.

The most extreme for me were going to a meeting in Orlando FL in fall 2002 with a 600E, and to another meeting in Washington DC in fall 2005 with a 240.

#7 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:12 pm

1st place would be when I used my ThinkPad while still in high school. the computer would be kicked, dropped, hit and otherwise abused all without major damage. Next place would be my car where, even with a good case, the laptop gets slammed around at times thanks to the constant stop, go, sudden stop, suddenly 60mph, sudden stop, somewhat go type of traffic that's common to Atlanta and it's suburbs. You know, now that I think of it, anyone who complains about traffic in their town should have to spend a rush hour in Atlanta.

pianowizard · #8 Post by **pianowizard** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:45 pm

AlphaKilo470 wrote:You know, now that I think of it, anyone who complains about traffic in their town should have to spend a rush hour in Atlanta.

I experienced a little bit of it during a meeting in downtown Atlanta in Oct 2006, which brought about 30K people to the city. I don't remember the traffic being too bad. For that meeting, I brought a Toshiba Portege R100.

goofyGAguy · #9 Post by **goofyGAguy** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:06 pm

AlphaKilo470 wrote: You know, now that I think of it, anyone who complains about traffic in their town should have to spend a rush hour in Atlanta.

Or get repeatedly jabbed with a hot cattle prod. Same difference.

Temetka · #10 Post by **Temetka** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:15 pm

I have taken my old T23 (now gone on e-bay) up to the beach. Just near Malibu and the Pacific Coast Highway. Really beautiful place at night. I love how when the waves are just ready to break and the moonlight bounces of the foam, how the whole wave-line just seems to luminesce and god it's amazing. Then the waves breaks and you get that lovely ocean sound.

I just realized how much I miss that. Guess I know what I am doing after work tomorrow.

egibbs · #11 Post by **egibbs** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:04 am

Devora Beach Resort, Jawili, PI. It had a motherboard failure in the second week. There actually was an IBM authorized repair center 30 klicks away, but it Atti Atti Han Festival time, and everybody was too busy getting drunk and street dancing to work on it.

Ed Gibbs

#12 Post by **GomJabbar** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:24 am

egibbs wrote:Devora Beach Resort, Jawili, PI.

That looks like an Extremely nice place to bring your ThinkPad.

tyanlion · #13 Post by **tyanlion** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:00 am

z_24 wrote:I think there are some thinkpads in the International Space Station.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhib ... nkpad.html

wow A31p anyone have that?

egibbs · #14 Post by **egibbs** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:06 am

Indeed it was.

$35/night for a 2 bedroom house literally on the beach (at high tide the waves lapped at the foundation). Meals were another 6 bucks a day or so, and consisted of whatever the two outrigger fishing boats down the beach caught that day. Warm San Miguels were about a quarter each, ice was extra if the "store" across the dirt road had it. Power was an off and on kind of thing - the owner has a backup generator but it's only enough to run the water pump so if the main power was off there was no Aircon. But we were there in January so it wasn't unbearable and the cold showers felt good.

The best part was the evenings. The owner Robert and his sons would bring a jug of "Devora Wine" (rum and coconut milk) out into the courtyard, Eric the Peace Corps volunteer would come by on his bike, a guitar would appear and Philipino folk songs would fill the air as we all got happily sloshed.

Ed Gibbs

dsigma6 · #15 Post by **dsigma6** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:11 pm

AlphaKilo470 wrote:You know, now that I think of it, anyone who complains about traffic in their town should have to spend a rush hour in Atlanta.

Not that this a contest of any sort, but the lovely city of Philadelphia is home to the 2nd and 3rd most dangerous intersections in the country. I'm so proud!

I found this on some random list of the worst bottlenecks in the country:

6. Atlanta I-75
I-75 at I-85 Interchange
259,128 Vehicles per day
21,045 Annual hours of delay
67 Hours per driver spent in traffic annually.

(http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0931285.html)

I'd still say the 101 in LA is one of the worst places I've driven. It's not that they can't drive, it's that their friggin' attitudes suck!

Ok...BOT...

I take care of my ThinkPads, and the worst they've been through is some extremely cold weather in the back seat of the car. Actually, letting my fiance use it is quite hazardous too (smudges on the screen, sticky crap on the keyboard and trackpoint, moving/dropping it before it enters hibernation.) I love her.

egibbs · #16 Post by **egibbs** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:40 pm

tyanlion wrote:
z_24 wrote:I think there are some thinkpads in the International Space Station.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhib ... nkpad.html

wow A31p anyone have that?

A couple years back on the old board someone posted a picture of either MIR or the Space station, with a TP clearly visible mounted to the wall.

But if you looked real close you could see the the one line of text on the screen said "OS not found"

Ed Gibbs

#17 Post by **JHEM** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:50 pm

egibbs wrote:A couple years back on the old board someone posted a picture of either MIR or the Space station, with a TP clearly visible mounted to the wall.

See my reply in this thread Ed.

James

goofyGAguy · #18 Post by **goofyGAguy** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:19 pm

dsigma6 wrote: I found this on some random list of the worst bottlenecks in the country:

6. Atlanta I-75
I-75 at I-85 Interchange
259,128 Vehicles per day
21,045 Annual hours of delay
67 Hours per driver spent in traffic annually

There was a terrible bus accident there this morning.

joester · #19 Post by **joester** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:14 pm

Very tragic, that crash. My heart goes out to the families.

Mine would be a 1200 mile trip (one way) to Florida to do Disney, in the back seat playing DVD after DVD to keep the kids quiet. Doesn't sound like much, but the trip that usually takes 17ish hours took 27 hours each way due to snowstorms. We took 10 DVD's, and some played twice.

I'm sure it was happy to be removed from the SUV upon returning home. It hasn't played one since and I don't think it wants to.

For the record, it performed much better than I expected. The onboard speakers were sufficient and I had no need to plug in the FM transmitter I made about 5 years ago to get the sound to the fm radio. It impressed me.

Joe

creed_mty · #20 Post by **creed_mty** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:36 am

goofyGAguy wrote:

There was a terrible bus accident there this morning.[/quote]

it happens due a bridge design or there was not any sign that let driver know the bridge is not going straight only left or right. i think the bus driver thought that this brige is going straight obviously kept the speed when it exits the interstate and when he realized that there is not straight way, unfortunately it was too late causing the accident according to the digital dramatization on the news!!

#21 Post by **thePCxp** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:08 am

I brought my ThinkPad to the beach.

Purcy · #22 Post by **Purcy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:36 pm

dsigma6 wrote: Not that this a contest of any sort, but the lovely city of Philadelphia is home to the 2nd and 3rd most dangerous intersections in the country. I'm so proud!

I've never been to LA, but unfortunately several times we have sat, for hours, on the Schuylkill "Expressway" (oh brother, what a misnomer) trying to get into your fair city

. Next time, we're coming in after dark, like when everyone's sleeping.

#23 Post by **JHEM** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:55 pm

Purcy wrote:I've never been to LA, but unfortunately several times we have sat, for hours, on the Schuylkill "Expressway"

We locals refer to it as the "Surekill Distressway"!

James

Purcy · #24 Post by **Purcy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:39 pm

JHEM wrote: We locals refer to it as the "Surekill Distressway"!

James

Hey James, my DH will love that one. It takes us 4 hours to get from Pgh to Philly and 2 hours to get into the city on the Distressway!

#25 Post by **JHEM** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:57 pm

Purcy wrote:It takes us 4 hours to get from Pgh to Philly

4 hours? FOUR HOURS??

You're either driving very fast or flying very slow.

Last time I was able to make it to PIT in 4 hours while driving was when I still had the EPA regional emergency response contract and my car had a red light and siren!

James

Purcy · #26 Post by **Purcy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:13 pm

hehe, we don't fart around! maybe I underestimate and it takes us 4.5 hrs & 1.5hrs on the Surekill joyride., but it's no more than 4.5hrs.; we need to find a backdoor into Philly though;

but I digress and apologize for roaming off topic.

Turbo Audi · #27 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:43 pm

AMERICAN LITERATURE LECTURES! NOW THATS EXTREME!!

dsigma6 · #28 Post by **dsigma6** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:49 am

JHEM wrote:
Purcy wrote:It takes us 4 hours to get from Pgh to Philly
4 hours? FOUR HOURS??

You're either driving very fast or flying very slow.

Well...I made it from Philadelphia to Los Angeles (Camarillo) in 32 hours, so Phila. to Pitt. in 4 doesn't seem outrageous!

NS · #29 Post by NS » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:18 am

I took my R52 to Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam and no matter how i dropped it, bump it, scratch it... it still runs strong as ever until i wacked it 6 times last year and the HDD died. Have replaced the HDD and now it resumed it\'s work. My heart bleed like crazy during the HDD failure period.

Took my T60 and X60 to California to do my military training last year. I have intended to go over to Florida to get my thinkpads signed by BillMorrow but i lost my way and Florida is soooo faraway from my area. So i returned home disappointed. <Sigh!>

Took my R52 to the beach and try to imitate Vanessa (thePCxp) but i ended up kicking sand into my thinkpad when i lay it down on the mat. <Arrrggggg!!!>

Used my R60 on SBS Transit buses (Singapore public buses) and this stupid driver keeps stepping on the gas and suddenly stepped on the brake and make the whole bus rock like crazy and my R60 shoot out from my lap to the ground with a loud sound and i have that sort of sick feeling in me until i inspected the damage and found nothing but a few scratches here and there. (I don\'t like scratches and i have lodged in a complain about this particular driver and hoping to claim a minor compensation).

When my thinkpads suffered from scratch or any sort of damages, my heart will bleed.

kayoszero · #30 Post by **kayoszero** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:57 pm

id say the worst place ive had mine... is in a cheap hotel in paris, left it under the bed charging when i was out!

heres a thinkpad in space!!!! check out the mustache!

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