Trashed laptops: When bad things happen to (mostly) good PCs

We scoured the Web to find true tales of splintered, shattered, and smashed laptops.

Mystery Damage



Vicky Sawyer of Blacksburg, Virginia, participates in a local computer literacy program, and she isn't quite sure how this Dell laptop cracked up. But she has weighed three possible scenarios: (1) a baby toy fell on it; (2) it was in a book bag that was thrown against a wall; (3) two kids were fighting over it, and it fell. "I don't believe #1 at all. I think #3 is most plausible," she writes.

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