Wet Laptop Recovery AGAIN Dell XPS 13

[NeatSquidYT]

Wow.

[Rorossi]

"your not suppose to do stupid thing's" i thinks that the whole point of linus actually he does stupid thing so that we don't have to thanks linus!

[mooseman]

lulz I can't believe you did it again. Bravo for balls Linus!  :lol:

[Keystone Nyan Cat]

I guess this is a personal thing, but Linus- what have you done with your hair; it looks horrible! Kindly get it sorted, you look rather bad and that doesn't suit you...

[Norman_the_Owl]

Pretty sure most laptops would survive, but whatever man

[peanutsrevenge]

To followup the followup, how about chucking an old (but fully functioning preferably) desktop mobo/ram/cpu/ssd (not hdd, dat get filled hole yo) PSU out in the rain and try reserecting that.
Going without chassis would just make it quicker and easier.

 

It'll provide more evidence as to whether it's fine to get electronics wet that are only powered by 5v/off.

 

If off, it'll be fine, so long as particles left by the rain are cleared off sufficiently.

 

Pure water's harmless of course, even to powered electronics (just gotta keep it pure)

[DeViLzzz]

I enjoyed the video but really in the year 2015 for electronics which people use more and more on a daily basis outside at work and for play they should all be waterproof to a certain point.  It is totally ridiculous that many are not.  An example would be my first ever smart phone from Nokia.  I was shocked when they told me it was not waterproof.  At that point I lost some respect for the smartphone / cellphone market.

[Skaterdude97]

Wow, If I was the guy at Dell that sent you that, I would be pissed right now. But since I'm just a no one, I'm glad you're willing to destroy your relationship with companies to bring us interesting videos.

[geosphere]

customer spilled coffee on dell and it survived. recommended more ram if they wanted a faster pc not coffee 

[MacSquizzy]

Linus Tech Tips: We're so good with computers, we actually don't know how to break them.

[joe.blair]

Primo video. Great job guys!

 

Ps: Hire a woman; you mentioned you'd do it before. It will really help your workplace, I promise.

[KRImSIN]

Note: do not ever trust linus with a laptop..

[Keudn]

Now you have to do a waterproof test for every laptop you review @LinusTech

[Infernal Burrito]

It appears to me that you only had really bad luck. I'm regularly taking pictures with my Z2 while being under water and never had any damage.

Maybe you are just having great luck. Does your Z2 get fogged up in the main camera lens after exposure to water? Mine does and it seems irreversible. No difference in image quality.

[dash2justice]

Can someone explain, the laptop was in sleep so there was still power going through it.  How can it not fry the second water touches something that has power going through it, since it's not distilled water.  water gets in electronics start shorting computer dies, right?

[Callahans]

That kinda makes me think twice about my dream's Macbook Retina Display. I mean... I know it may not be the best on the market and Apple products are expensive (SPECIALLY IN BRAZIL... SUPER EXPENSIVE) and so on... The fact is that if I have the propper conditions to buy one, I'd want to. Buuuuuut this Dell is amazing. Love the way it looks.

Cheers from Brazil!

 

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Daniel Souza
Computer Engineering Student
Brazil

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[SurvivorNVL]

I honestly believe since most laptops are not designed to take spill damage, let alone rain damage, most board have almost equal opportunity of survival once exposed and corroded. I think it's based on if it's attempted to be turned on before drying and doing stuff like I listed above. 

Makes me want to be paid to soak 20 different laptops in equal water exposure and see what happens after they are fixed the exact same way

Get a hold of an MSI GT80 Titan.  You know what you have to do...

[Syntaxvgm]

Get a hold of an MSI GT80 Titan.  You know what you have to do...

Lol I want that thing so bad but could not justify it in a million years. My number one complaint about laptops of that size are terrible to type on becuase of the elevated surface the generally shit keyboard is on. 

[rlcastro]

awesome vid! hahaha

[Nemockulous]

This is actually pretty effective marketing. Kinda want to buy one of these.

[arecheese]

man I CRINGED at the part when the laptop was being soaked. I wish I had the luxury of experimenting on expensive equipment like this! good thing LMG is there to do for us

[Dbrasp91]

Would it still have worked if it was entirely submerged instead of those raindrops?

[Brawhammer]

Would it still have worked if it was entirely submerged instead of those raindrops?

 

 

Most likely not. That rain is most likely being diverted to less critical parts and not things like the battery connectors.

 

Plus I don't think the screen got water into it. But under water who knows.

[DSB_Crankster]

_{YAAAAYYY wet laptops lol}

[Nicq101]

PLZ make this a benchmark for all of the laptops you review, because why not?