Gadgetory

now we unbox this guy a couple of weeks ago the ThinkPad x1 carbon ultrabook it's supposed to be rugged so let's find out first up into my tiny tiny freezer drawer here okay it's a my ski now it's been 2 hours let's see how our think pad is doing in the cold that's cold ice cold that is cold that is cold crystallization obviously alright let's see if it can turn on there we go look at that this guy doesn't even need thawing it's just comforting what a champ actually this is pretty impressive because if you remember the MacBook Air didn't really want to wake up out of sleep but this guy not a problem our ThinkPad x1 carbon had no problem with the cold let's see how it does with the heat all right we have our oven at 200 degrees and we go oh god this feels wrong okay one hour off ago all right let's see how it's doing cool smelling a little bit melty very chemical this is probably off gassing in a way that I don't want to think about right now okay I am going to assume it's very hot to the touch oh it is let's just go ahead and let this little cake rest for a while and then we'll fire it up and see how it's doing it looks like our pie is done here it is cooled off enough to remove from the pan definitely still warm to touch on the bottom that kind of scary scary chemical smell has not gone away that probably just took two years off my life just taken away for that we have a little bit of warpage it looks like on one of our covers here we have a little leakage from one of our stickers other than that no obvious damage let's see if we can get it to come on so it didn't wake up right from sleep oh you can see we've got some warping here to the screen is starting to separate from the cover and I can snap it back in a little bit so we definitely have cracking coming away from the lid on both corners it did not shut down successfully in the oven no surprise there let's start Windows normally okay on startup we're okay the screen looks good everything seems to be working as normal battery life is about the same although we definitely have a little bit of obvious warping around the screen so try not to leave this one in a car in a really hot day I'm still going to call it generally a success now we do usually do water for our water test but I realized that almost every morning I stand here and I make my coffee and I check my email and I look at the news and you know that is really just a disaster waiting to happen oh it's just awful I can't believe I just did that Oh hot coffee in the keyboard I know you've all done this well that's dramatic I would like to note that the screen is still on once again though this laptop is just about too hot to Det I think I need a new towel okay now as usual when you spill the key is to try to get the laptop into a position where you can let all that water drip out for coffee in this case hello I gotta say doesn't seem to be having any problem so far we'll check it again in a little while here after I let it dry a bit Beale just uh hang it upside down that looks official now we never even did a drop test on this ThinkPad because frankly it was just to who damaged at that point I did do a little emergency surgery though to try to open it up and dry it out that's something you could try at home so here's what it looks like you oh wow yeah they're little like I wanna get my hair dryer up I let it lay out like that on my counter for a couple of days and now it's the moment we've all been waiting for did it recover let's find out I have it plugged into the power and it kinda comes on now I've plugged it in before and every time I basically just get a message that says you know like I'm not okay try to start Windows let's see if we can get it to restore the problem is that the trackpad oh maybe this one will work oh come on the trackpad is no longer responsive and neither is the keyboard so it wants to come back to life but these few components are just not working right I think that's probably fixable although all of that lid damage was really pretty disappointing well might be okay with a little love and care money you