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

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

That's What Friends Are For



Okay, what happened here? "The story behind its destruction is my friend threw an N64 controller at me," writes Liam Higgins of Comox, British Columbia. The controller "flew right into the screen, cracking it. It was a fairly old laptop at the time with no data that I cared about, so I took the opportunity to smash it more and remove the keys for a photo shoot."

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