My two year old pulled my Motion 1400 tablet off the kitchen table by the
power cord today. It hit the tile floor very hard. It is my companies
computer and when I realized what happened, I looked at my wife and said,
that just cost us a couple thousand. However, the Sprint Aircard was bent
and the casing of the tablet cracked open to where I could see into the
"guts" of the tablet, but when I booted it up, it and the Aircard worked like
a champ. Just a little testimonial to the durability of Motion Computing
Tablets.

My dog managed to knock my M200 off the table. Broke the protective glass
(not yet fixed so I am not sure how much that is going to cost me) but
everything else works fine.

--
Gary A. Bushey
SPS MVP
bushey@mindspring.com
"Kanza" <Kanza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:394B15C0-0125-4348-9465-E08B3FD8722C@microsoft.com...
> My two year old pulled my Motion 1400 tablet off the kitchen table by the
> power cord today. It hit the tile floor very hard. It is my companies
> computer and when I realized what happened, I looked at my wife and said,
> that just cost us a couple thousand. However, the Sprint Aircard was
> bent
> and the casing of the tablet cracked open to where I could see into the
> "guts" of the tablet, but when I booted it up, it and the Aircard worked
> like
> a champ. Just a little testimonial to the durability of Motion Computing
> Tablets.

And you used to have homework before the dog ate it? 8-)
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Gary A. Bushey [SPS MVP]" <bushey@mindspring.comNOSPAM> wrote in message
news:uvdTeuamFHA.2152@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> My dog managed to knock my M200 off the table. Broke the protective
> glass (not yet fixed so I am not sure how much that is going to cost me)
> but everything else works fine.
>
> --
> Gary A. Bushey
> SPS MVP
> bushey@mindspring.com
> "Kanza" <Kanza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:394B15C0-0125-4348-9465-E08B3FD8722C@microsoft.com...
>> My two year old pulled my Motion 1400 tablet off the kitchen table by
>> the
>> power cord today. It hit the tile floor very hard. It is my companies
>> computer and when I realized what happened, I looked at my wife and said,
>> that just cost us a couple thousand. However, the Sprint Aircard was
>> bent
>> and the casing of the tablet cracked open to where I could see into the
>> "guts" of the tablet, but when I booted it up, it and the Aircard worked
>> like
>> a champ. Just a little testimonial to the durability of Motion Computing
>> Tablets.
>
>

Excellent reason to run on battery. 8-) Hopefully both babies survived the
incident unscathed.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Kanza" <Kanza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:394B15C0-0125-4348-9465-E08B3FD8722C@microsoft.com...
> My two year old pulled my Motion 1400 tablet off the kitchen table by the
> power cord today. It hit the tile floor very hard. It is my companies
> computer and when I realized what happened, I looked at my wife and said,
> that just cost us a couple thousand. However, the Sprint Aircard was
> bent
> and the casing of the tablet cracked open to where I could see into the
> "guts" of the tablet, but when I booted it up, it and the Aircard worked
> like
> a champ. Just a little testimonial to the durability of Motion Computing
> Tablets.

On 8/5/2005 1:34:19 AM, "=?Utf-8?B?S2FuemE=?=" wrote:
>My two year old pulled my Motion 1400 tablet off the kitchen table by the
>power cord today. It hit the tile floor very hard. It is my companies
>computer and when I realized what happened, I looked at my wife and said,
>that just cost us a couple thousand. However, the Sprint Aircard was bent
>and the casing of the tablet cracked open to where I could see into the
>"guts" of the tablet, but when I booted it up, it and the Aircard worked like
>a champ. Just a little testimonial to the durability of Motion Computing
>Tablets.
>

I can top that - but unfortunately I can't point to someone else as the
cause. <G>

I was working at a client site, and had my M200 on a table that was about 4.5
feet high. The power cable was plugged into the wall the table was up
against, but the network cable was below the table, so it was hanging over
the front edge of the table going down to the jack in the wall.

My cell phone started ringing, which was across the room. I got off the stool
I was perched on, turned to walk to the phone, and my foot was of course
stuck in a loop in the cable.

My tablet didn't just *fall* - it was *YANKED* off the table and forcibly
onto the floor.

it was in laptop mode, and landed on one of the corners of the screen,
partially rotated the screen and flipped the screen over backwards. It landed
about 8 feet away from where it started out.

Needless to say I was scared to death - visions of all types of damage to my
poor baby.

Imagine my shock when I couldn't find a single mark - not one. No damage at
all, everything worked fine, no cracks, nothing.

Even the network jack in back where the cable was plugged was fine - and I
was expecting that to have been ripped out by the sheer force of my leg when
I hopped up to go answer the phone.

I must say, some computer companies *really* put effort into durability.

Toshiba won my heart that day. And since this is my second Toshiba tablet,
I've had a lot of time with them, and so far have been impressed.


--
John D [MVP - Tablet PC]

I've seen a Motion that had had a chair leg come down on it when the owner
inadvertently moved his chair (with him in it), forgetting that he'd put the
Tablet on the floor.

Amazingly, although the screen was completely cracked, the machine still
booted and worked.
--
Terri Stratton
Editor / Owner
http://thetabletpc.net
http://themediacenterpc.net
Microsoft Featured Communities
Microsoft Windows MVP - Tablet PC

"Kanza" <Kanza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:394B15C0-0125-4348-9465-E08B3FD8722C@microsoft.com...
> My two year old pulled my Motion 1400 tablet off the kitchen table by the
> power cord today. It hit the tile floor very hard. It is my companies
> computer and when I realized what happened, I looked at my wife and said,
> that just cost us a couple thousand. However, the Sprint Aircard was
> bent
> and the casing of the tablet cracked open to where I could see into the
> "guts" of the tablet, but when I booted it up, it and the Aircard worked
> like
> a champ. Just a little testimonial to the durability of Motion Computing
> Tablets.

ViewSonic V1250's are tough, too. Had started stuffing mine in a
backpack on a desk when I moved away. The backpack started
rocking, and I started to run back to it. When it stopped
rocking, I stopped running...and then backpack and baby took a
nose dive. I knew my world had imploded when I heard that THWACK.
You know what? Some of the plastic might have been scuffed. He
took some other spills like a trooper, too. I expected to have
to use my accidental damage policy for something like that, but
it was a spill of a different type that made me make that call.
Even so, a whole glass of wine meant one dead key.

My baby boy bounces, but hates to take a bath!

--
The Miniature Mage


"terri" <support@thetabletpc.not> wrote in message
news:OYkXshemFHA.3568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I've seen a Motion that had had a chair leg come down on it
> when the owner inadvertently moved his chair (with him in it),
> forgetting that he'd put the Tablet on the floor.
>
> Amazingly, although the screen was completely cracked, the
> machine still booted and worked.
> --
> Terri Stratton
> Editor / Owner
> http://thetabletpc.net
> http://themediacenterpc.net
> Microsoft Featured Communities
> Microsoft Windows MVP - Tablet PC
>
> "Kanza" <Kanza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:394B15C0-0125-4348-9465-E08B3FD8722C@microsoft.com...
>> My two year old pulled my Motion 1400 tablet off the kitchen
>> table by the
>> power cord today. It hit the tile floor very hard. It is my
>> companies
>> computer and when I realized what happened, I looked at my
>> wife and said,
>> that just cost us a couple thousand. However, the Sprint
>> Aircard was bent
>> and the casing of the tablet cracked open to where I could see
>> into the
>> "guts" of the tablet, but when I booted it up, it and the
>> Aircard worked like
>> a champ. Just a little testimonial to the durability of Motion
>> Computing
>> Tablets.
>
>

I must say, the punishment of that child, if both the tablet and the
kid were mine, wouldn't end untill she was 18! (j/k, things happen ;) )

Kanza wrote:
> My two year old pulled my Motion 1400 tablet off the kitchen table by the
> power cord today. It hit the tile floor very hard. It is my companies
> computer and when I realized what happened, I looked at my wife and said,
> that just cost us a couple thousand. However, the Sprint Aircard was bent
> and the casing of the tablet cracked open to where I could see into the
> "guts" of the tablet, but when I booted it up, it and the Aircard worked like
> a champ. Just a little testimonial to the durability of Motion Computing
> Tablets.