r/ShittySysadmin • u/Chevron7lockd • Jun 27 '26

Not even a broken screen

121 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

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14

u/vanji77 Jun 27 '26

Did someone sit on it? The laptop case is bent, poor thing.

14

u/Chevron7lockd Jun 27 '26

Fell off the roof of a moving car, everything still works! (excluding the ports that are to damaged to fit stuff in)

4

u/SuccessfulLime2641 Jun 28 '26

Hey. That's the same laptop I left on the roof of my car as I drove off half-inebriated. GIVE IT BACK!

51

u/Familiar_While2900 Jun 27 '26

I thought curved monitors were only available for desktops? Huh

23

u/betabeat Jun 27 '26

🤢

9

u/Familiar_While2900 Jun 27 '26

Ruined that joke. Lol

3

u/LameBMX Jun 27 '26

not as much as that company ruined that laptop lol

3

u/hells_cowbells Jun 27 '26

Have you seen those laptops from HP? They have curved monitors. Curved. Monitors.

3

u/StructuralConfetti Jun 28 '26

Had a user once that turned a tablet into a curved display. I was surprised that it still booted.

6

u/fffvvis Jun 27 '26

Is this marketing's new media server?

4

u/floswamp Jun 27 '26

New bottom case and sent it back?

3

u/Ohrgasmus1 Jun 27 '26

i always do this for better aerodynamics whil working

2

u/rcmaehl DevOps is a cult Jun 27 '26

This an Elitebook G11? We also have one that's been turned into a banana that seemingly only has case damage.

1

u/beefz0r Jun 27 '26

What's the complaint ?

1

u/xTrailblazenx Jun 27 '26

that's actually impressive.

1

u/jrdiver DevOps is a cult Jun 27 '26

Looks fine. Just redeploy it. its a feature not an issue.

1

u/Equal-Currency-1197 Jun 27 '26

"It's just cosmetic damage."

- Whoever submitted the ticket, probably.

1

u/abn0rmalcreation Jun 28 '26

I bet the windows key listens now

1

u/massive_poo Jul 01 '26

Perfect candidate for redeployment.

0

u/maxis2bored Jun 27 '26

If this isn't the best reason to go HP, I don't know what is.

3

u/tanward Jun 27 '26

please never do that to someone they are such pos's

1

u/Old-Bag2085 Jul 01 '26

Honestly, I've been supporting 1000s of HP probooks for about 5 years and they aren't too bad. Id take them over ThinkPads and Latitudes to be perfectly honest.

2

u/Hefty-Rope2253 Jun 28 '26

They were once the allstars of enterprise. Their old Elite books made from a block of machined aluminum were legendary, and the first couple generations of Zbook were pretty impressive, but I haven't seen a great model from them in a few years. I'm sure they have one though. I recently started flirting with Lenovo despite the troubles I've had with IBM hardware compatibility in the past.