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Around 2015, or so I was visiting Boston during some really cold winter (was -10 outside) We were at the office, went out to wait for a bus, waited for 15 minu

Around 2015, or so I was visiting Boston during some really cold winter (was -10 outside) We were at the office, went out to wait for a bus, waited for 15 minutes, and since it was freezing we decided to go back inside and get uber/taxi. I pulled my laptop out of the backpack, tried to turn it on - it was dead.

MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Lithium batteries don't like extreme temperatures. Is it possible to make a laptop that copes ok with extreme temperatures? edit Apparently the Toughbook is able to cope with -16°C. Wonder how they do it. https://business.panasonic.co.uk/mobile-solutions/more-about-toughbook/the-touhest-rugged-mobile-computers https://business.panasonic.co.uk/mobile-solutions/more-about...
- kodisha 6y ago
  Nope, the entire laptop was dead. Booted into some black screen of death, with glitches. I never saw something like that before or after that.
  - chithanh 6y ago
    Possibly condensing water caused some transient short circuit. If your laptop survived, you were lucky.
    - hinkley 6y ago
      Kids these days. Anybody remember when rental movies had warnings about letting them warm up before playing them if they were exposed to cold temperatures?
- tzs 6y ago
  Some Toughbooks go to -25 C. https://www.fieldenvironmental.com/assets/files/Literature/Panasonic%20Toughbook%20CF-19%20Specs.pdf https://www.fieldenvironmental.com/assets/files/Literature/P...
- NeutronStar 6y ago
  Because they actually engineer their products to be usable?