Trashed laptops: When bad things happen to (mostly) good PCs

We scoured the Web to find true tales of splintered, shattered, and smashed laptops.

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Andrew Tegala of London, England, was working in technical support when this pulverized portable arrived. "I headed over to the reception area and saw a laptop back with a delivery address taped to the side," he writes. "I realised then that the laptop had been sent in just the bag, no packaging. As I picked up the case, I heard the rattle inside of small fragments (the LCD display was smashed)."

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