5 minutes later the guy walks into my office, and without a word, picks up my computer, drops it, pushes the power button and boots up the system.
This isn't the first time I've heard of computers being fixed that way.
Hard drives are designed to take a certain small amount of abuse when they're turned off. As they're starting to show up in portable electronics (e.g. iPods), durability is a big issue. I read somewhere that the drop-test for cell phones is 1.5 feet, but the current micro drives support only 1 foot - that's whats keeping them from being added to cell phones right now.
Cost and compelling need might have something to do with it too.
