How Indians test laptops!!!
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008I 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.
Read more about it here.
Now, this is good, indeed. Dell says that they joined the already long list of computer makers that will offer this service to their customers. Data show that approx. 12.000 laptops are lost in US airports during one week time. If we do the math, 12000 per week means 48000 per month, means 576000 laptops stolen or lost over one year. It’s a lot, in my opinion…