[colug-432] sadly, my 2012 vintage HP laptop was offered as a sacrifice

[Tom]

On 10/06/2015 12:19 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Chris Clonch wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 14:21 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
>>> to the Delta Airline gods.  Not intended for such, and for the
>>> life of me I cannot see how they got to it, but, there you are
>>>
>>> Its display has gone cracked, with a most artistic pattern
>>> displayed
>> Was this was checked luggage?
> one of my kids lost a Lenovo / IBM display many years ago to
> the airline laptop munching deities, on a leg from the UK, to
> the US, checked and insufficiently protected (not sure ANY
> protection could work there).  This MAY be archival footage of
> the incident:
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-e96m4730
>
> So: carry on, in a soft side backpack that I have used for
> many years without incident.  During the travels, it was at my
> feet on two legs of 'commuter jet' to Detroit and from NYC;
> then in the overhead bin (where I suspect something got pushed
> on top of it to close the bin) and torqued the frame of the
> lid, and so the display, on a 'full size' aircraft for two
> legs
>
> Pre-trip, I had looked at a hard side roll-on piece of luggage
> / backpack combo at MicroCenter for about $150 but decided
> against it, but partly because of bulk.  I'll probably pull
> the trigger and pick one up now (after the barn has burned
> down, and the horses have fled the barn)
>
> A list member points out a morning coffee at Staufs today that
> it may well be in my power to get a repair kit and drop a new
> display in, and I will explore that.  Perhaps we can all
> participate in the dissection and possible revival at a COLUG
> meeting, once I have the parts in
>
>> I ask as I've spent the past few months
>> casually researching a laptop for the purpose of traveling.  In the
>> past, I've always keep mine as a carry-on and intent to do so going
>> forward.  I'm mainly looking at battery life and currently the 13" Dell
>> XPS has my eye, which is more svelte and likely more susceptible to
>> damage than I'm sure your HP is/was.
> There are Toshiba Tough-book's and I see that some Lenovo also
> have a hard rubber cushioning ...
>   
>> If you had yours as carry-on I may need to look into airline policies on
>> damage (if there is such a thing).
> Interesting thought -- wonder if they (or a third party) will
> sell such without the unit being in a hard-side Pelican type
> case.  Amazon search term:
> 	pelican hardback laptop case
> shows a pretty wide selection so one could buy one that 'just
> fits'
>
> Actually, as I think of it, I wonder if my Amex covers this.
> They cover a lot of weird 'everyday' traveler annoyances
>
> -- Russ herrold
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I always carry my laptop on. I do not put overhead. I always check my 
luggage. Usually fly Southwest.

Check https://www.discountelectronics.com/category?category=22 for parts.

Tom