Mine certainly never fell out of a socket, and you'd want a computer to be plugged into a surge protector anyway. I've been running it continuously as long as I

Mine certainly never fell out of a socket, and you'd want a computer to be plugged into a surge protector anyway. I've been running it continuously as long as I've owned it; it's not a piece of junk. It's a reliable Linux server that uses 3% the power of my laptop and 0.6% the power of my desktop computer... and it was less than $100.