From: Steve Hultquist (ssh_at_accumedia.com)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 10:27:22 EDT
Sorry, but I would call that misuse. I even think there's something in
the manual about letting it warm up to room temperature before turning
it on. It's got nothing to do with the Thinkpad 600, virtually any TFT
display would do the same. Heck, a *guitar* will stress crack if you do
that to it!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rudolph wratten [mailto:cowthief_at_worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 3:58 AM
> To: THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: The UK plans.
>
>
> Hello.
>
> We have video of a 600 that, while sitting on a desk, cracked
> its screen.
> The machine was brought in from a very cold place, then
> turned on, the best
> guess is that the back-light had heated the glass, thus the failure.
> EZ serve has gone nuts trying to decide what to do.
> We simply called the insurance company up, they stated " this
> is a problem
> with the 600s ".
> They feel that it something wrong, but pointed out that this
> is not covered
> by insurance, no laptop is in our insurance policy for
> anything but theft or
> fire, so if the thinkpad were to burst in flames while
> someone were stealing
> it?.
>
>
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