Baseball bat to monitor - Linus Style!

[OddlyShapedTree]

I laughed at around 5:50 "Bashing sentimental items with a baseball bat? Nope." 

[Charger]

first thing i though of when he did that is in the video was "does that monitor have vga" i don't think his laptop would have vga and hdmi out

[Lil Chillbil]

I think that a simple punch would of been much safer and effective

[ajoy39]

Most laptop VGA ports don't have screws, so tearing it off the motherboard by doing that would be unlikely.

true, but they don't just pull off with zero friction either. There was definitely some torque there and the way the screen on the laptop freaked out scared me a little too. I'm sure this dude appreciated his new monitor, but if they broke his laptop in the process?Not so much

[Forza-x73]

Holy Fak

[Bentheren]

o.o

I don't even........

It is, BT class it as "broadband" and it still goes down when the phone rings so it's basically dial up!

[iSuzak]

I would have been so shocked if i were in his place.

[EtaCarinae]

Looked like some collateral damage occurred.

The way the monitor hit the two towers on the table behind it. The laptop also got torqued and went black for the rest of the video.

 

I wouldn't doubt the stunt damaged the VGA port on the laptop it was plugged into possibly doing breaking it off the motherboard. Good thing there's insurance when it comes to these kinds of stunts ;) I don't think we will be seeing this happen next year.

 

Perhaps a cordless drill would have been just as effective yet much less collateral.

 

Indeed it did. Not to mention the shrapnel from the smashed monitor collided with the case directly opposite of the monitor. That looked like a very, very high end rig, too.

I hope LMG purchased the winner a new laptop, too, and the collateral damaged tower owner a new case.

 

Most laptop VGA ports don't have screws, so tearing it off the motherboard by doing that would be unlikely.

 

Older laptops do. My old Toshiba does. That said, my newer Sony VAIO has a VGA port and it is recessed so it is not protruding from the laptop. If the VGA cable were ripped from the laptop with sufficient force it would have moved the internals of the laptop causing significant damage. 

 

The laptop the winner owns looked to be an Alienware. It too has a recessed VGA port:

 

 

Really?.... grabs laptop... well I'll be dammed never realized that. I'm not an advocate of laptops even even though I own one, I never use it and even less would I have the need to plug a monitor into it.

Either way the laptop did unexpectedly go black, usually when a display is removed windows defaults and switches back to primary laptop display. 

 

Exactly. The primary display immediately returns and adjusts its resolution accordingly. In the video the monitor flashes and attempts to do this, but then turns black. That is not normal.

 

true, but they don't just pull off with zero friction either. There was definitely some torque there and the way the screen on the laptop freaked out scared me a little too. I'm sure this dude appreciated his new monitor, but if they broke his laptop in the process?Not so much

Indeed. I'm going to assume it's broken until we hear otherwise from Linus or see proof it was not damaged. Simple physics will tell you a recessed VGA port being ripped on will cause damage.

Not very well thought out imho.  :unsure:

[looney]

Also, I like to use my old monitors as a second screen.......

 

Not really going to happen now.....

[criso8]

the amount of things that could have gone wrong... That was one awkward video

[TechTheWorld]

Did anyone else see his laptop flash several times? 

[cfclay21]

I think that broke his laptop...

[piplupgao]

dem vga

[megadarkwood]

i saw this video a few days ago, the first thing i thought was: "What if the laptop went down with the monitor?"

[Nirmal]

 

Older laptops do. My old Toshiba does. That said, my newer Sony VAIO has a VGA port and it is recessed so it is not protruding from the laptop. If the VGA cable were ripped from the laptop with sufficient force it would have moved the internals of the laptop causing significant damage. 

 

Yeah, my ThinkPad also has a VGA port that screws in. Though it's seems that most laptops don't have locking VGA ports eg. my dad's dell latitude.

[Phillyphries]

The monitor hit someone's rig. I'd be kinda mad if that was my tower..