[ltp] Tightening hinges on Thinkpads

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:22:09AM +0000, Ted Frater wrote:
> > however you should never open any laptop with one hand. youll eventually
> > crack the lcd. always use 2 hands.
> 
> That's interesting.  This is what IBM says (or used to say):
> 
>   ThinkPad notebook covers are engineered with ?smart latches? that make
>   the cover easy to open ? even with one hand.  Two latches are

All new ThinkPad covers were made to be opened one-handed.

But that doesn't mean you should not excercise care, and open it by applying
force to the middle point between the hinges (instead of one of the side
corners of the cover), while firmly holding the base at the same point.

Don't expect a ThinkPad that is treated like so much a piece of junk, tossed
around, swinged around one-handed, carried open by a corner... to last five
years without breaking.

I've seen many of the administrative personell do it (and boy, do they get
really pissed when you bill them for the repairs, but we do AND give them
the ugliest piece of crap we have around as a replacement while their laptop
is being repaired).  It is less common among the techies.

ThinkPads are sturdy, but you still need to take good care of them, if you
want them to last.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh