So a few good months ago my laptop got shot by a police robot.
When I write “shot” I don’t mean anything less than a live bullet puncturing my precious new IBM-T43p (yeah, the high-speed front-site-bus one).
I took it to a gathering of techie friends called Kinnernet but nobody had time to fix it (including myself), so when I got back home I decided to fix the darn thing.
When the bullet pierced ‘my precious’, it took out the screen, the keyboard and the motherboard. Luckily enough, the part of the motherboard that was taken out was a mere fan. When attempting to boot the kiddo (with external screen/keyboard ofcourse) the BIOS complained only about the fan…
2 days and 30$ later I was sitting in front of the then-shot now-dismantled laptop preparing for the minor surgery.
my new baby running windows (nothing to be proud of
Yossi suggested I sell it on eBay but I don’t know if it will really get a worthy price, after all it’s serving me well right now. Then again a laptop that survives a shot-of-death may be worth something to a collector.
I can be reached at ohadpr AT gmail DOT com
You can also visit 3D3R Software-Studios which is where I work.