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by anderspitman·7y ago·view on hn ↗
My 2011 X220 refuses to die. It's been tossed in bags, scuffed, cracked, and burned with a candle. The keyboard is perfect. Touchpad is fine. Wifi is excellent. Upgradeability unmatched. I'm running Linux with a tiling window manager, and performance is fine for pretty much everything I want to do, including compilation. It runs super hot (80C+ sometimes), but is always way quieter than my XPS15 from work. Only complaint is the low resolution of the screen (1366x768). 1080p would be perfect for the 12.5in screen.
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"burned with a candle" - nobody upvoted you for any reason other than wanting to know how this happened. Do tell, OP!
My sister put a candle on the table and the rising heat was barely under the lip of my open laptop lid. It melted a bit of the plastic, but the damage was only cosmetic. Sorry; pretty anticlimactic I know haha.
I would guess he put his laptop close to a candle which was subsequently tipped over.

But maybe there was Satanism involved. In that case please do tell, Mr. OP!