> A while back, I put in a A20M in one of my client's
> ham-fisted employees. I believe that he has had the
> A20 for about a year. And of course, the warranty has
> long expired. He had previously "lost" a 600E. Now,
> the A20M has a bad crack starting at the right rear
> corner extending beyond the hinge.
>
> He claims that the Thinkpad developed the crack all by
> itself. Although I am dubious of this story, I want
> to poll the list to hear if anyone else has
> experienced "spontaneous" chassis cracking on their A
> series Thinkpads before I mention this latest incident
> to my user's manager. I know of the hinge area
> failures on some of the 600Es and the palm rest area
> failure on the T20s. I don't recall hearing of any
> A2x chassis problems. I think.
These spontaneous cracks can happen when a runaway floor rises up and
strikes the ThinkPad. Ask him how fast the floor was going at the time--it
must have been quite a sight.
Other than runaway floors, I've never heard of such a thing on an A2x series
machine, and I've seen a fair number of them. In fact, a friend of mine had
a fast-moving floor strike his A21p so hard that it broke the USB jack where
a mouse was plugged in, but there was no visible case damage.
-Mike
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