How Indians test laptops!!!

I must be going out of my mind, really! I agree that rugged laptops have to be strong and withstand all kind of tests, but this Indian company overdid it! Before delivering laptops to students, they decided to test them for how rugged they really are, so they put the laptops on a hard floor and asked people weighting over 80 kilos to walk over them just to test them…

After the “test” is finished, the computers are booted and if everything works fine, then the computer manufacturer is allowed to participate in the price bid! How mad is that?

By the way, the company is a government company that delivers IT service in the Tamil Nadu region.

In the video below, a guy weighting 92 kilograms (or 202.8 pounds) and another weighing 85 kilograms walked over laptop computers from Acer and Dell.

I understand that they want to be sure that these laptops are rugged enough to work in those conditions that they require, but I think there is no reason for which they should test the computers these way. Man, we speak about Dell laptops and about Acer, right? I love Dell laptops, they have a beautiful design and the last thing I would do is to walk all over them just to test them…

“We subject any laptop we purchase, even for our internal use, to the same fire-walk test,” said C. Umashankar, managing director of Elcot. “You do have vendors delivering plastics that are very poor quality.”

Interesting that we speak here about 100,000 cheap laptops, because the government offers a big offer, asking a low price instead. We speak here about cheap laptops, at about $490.