How They Test the ThinkPad Hinge 30,000 Times
Laptop use hinges on durability.
ThinkPads have a reputation of being the tough, durable laptops that are all business. Forget fancy or stylish, the ThinkPad lineage is all about being reliable and dependable.
Anyone who has had a loose hinge on his or her laptop can attest to the fact that it makes it very hard to use the computer. Lenovo demonstrated at the Venetian in Las Vegas how it tests the durability of its ThinkPad hinge. The hinge is designed to endure at least 30,000 opens and closures throughout its lifetime. Assuming that you own a laptop for five years, that's over 16 lifts of the laptop screen hinge per day.
It's a simple, piece of mechanical engineering, but a vital part to the computer.
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yes we all open laptops like that, in a perfect arc not stressing the hinge in any way. i dont think anyone has ever grabbed the base and lid and opened it, with its entire weight suspended from the hand holding the lid.
there was obviously a small space on the net that needed filling and this pointless article fitted.
They could try fitting it to Steve Jobs' jaw just before he attends a bull**** convention?
I own an *IBM* ThinkPad T60 (not lenovo) for more than 5 years and I must say it's a remarkable piece of technology.
It rather lacks performance, has a very low-end TFT panel, and it's way surpassed by current notebooks in terms of performance, but it's reliability has impressed me. It seems to be built like a tank - it has been dropped several times, used in extreme cold and heat, full CPU load whenever it's on for the last 3 years (I use BOINC) and it still works perfectly. It's the same model that went in space on ISS (albeit not modified as such).
If IBM would still produce these kind of rock-solid laptops with also performance in mind without costing a fortune, I would for sure buy one.
I've tried several newer lenovo laptops, including a 2009 T400, and I was most disappointed - the Conexant audio interface was a total disaster, the video interface always had issues, the material quality was as low as it can go (the hinge locker broke in my 1st day, and I was using it with care). Maybe it's just me, but ThinkPads haven't the quality and common sense they used to had when they were produced by IBM.