[Vimoutliner] gpg + vimoutliner

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 26 July 2008 04:35, Peter Princz wrote:

> I'm riding all year, have a "winter" bike (MTB, wide tyres) and a
> "normal" (road) bike.
> Haven't had a fall off-winter yet with the laptop, but had a few
> during winter. Was gliding on ice on my back/bottom, backpack brushing
> the asphalt.
> (Will make my own studded tyres for this next winter.)
>
> The laptop is a Thinkpad T60 with IBM's (Lenovo's) standard laptop
> backpack. (Haven't had a choice, this is the corporate standard.) I
> believe the frame is enforced with Magnesium as with Samsonite cases,
> not pure plastic. Don't know if this is standard at other
> manufacturers or not.
>
> The bag is very well padded, no damage to the computer up to now,
> screen is like new, not even the finishing peeling off. The only
> complaint I got from PC helpdesk is that the keyboard is much more
> dusty than others's keyboards, but they know I'm riding and brush or
> vacuum-clean it for me once in a year.
> The only problem is it lets the rain in at the zip but will not let
> water out, so I have the laptop (and everything else, like paper-based
> Filofaxes) in separate plastic bags inside the backpack.
>
> I did 2500 km so far with this laptop on my back, not terrain but
> rough asphalt with potholes and pavé between a small town and a small
> village, no problems.
> I'm bunnyhoping the bigger ones, have clipless pedals, have rigid
> steel forks in both bikes, no spring or oil to dampen the shocks.
> I never let run the computer while riding, putting to standby is the
> minimum, the HDD not to spin during riding. (It would halt anyway, it
> has a shock detection feature that would stop and park the HDD at the
> smallest move.)
>
> Hope this helps, let me know if further elaboration is needed.

So if I understand right, you carry your computer in a laptop carrier inside a 
backpack, relying on your body to act as a shock absorber, and your body 
seems to be doing its job admirably, and you've done this for 2500km with no 
apparent malfunction of the laptop.

Have I read you correctly?

And I was worried about carrying my laptop a mile to the library :-)

Thanks Peter!

SteveT

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