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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No, that's not a screen saver. "With a school full of kids and laptops, accidents are bound to happen," writes Arvind S. Grover, director of technology at The Hewitt School in New York City. "This particular laptop was in a student’s bag and got crushed while left in a hallway. To the student’s horror, this is what she saw the next time she powered up the machine!"

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