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Re: Competing in a Regional Soon ? - Watch out

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All laptops are expensive fragile electronics. Velcroing them so they can be smashed about without consequence is ridiculous.
Securing a fragile thing is ridiculous? I find it logical, if anything. If you're still having issues after properly securing your laptop, it's likely your machine is just old or beaten up. Get a business laptop, most have built in accelerometers that put everything into a safe mode when the laptop is falling or experiences a heavy impact. We've run the 2016 DS on an 8 year old laptop with an SSD, and it handles it like a champ. You're not going to get every team in the world to be able to write a decent auto, no matter how hard you try someone is going to go full speed into the wall. Be prepared for the inevitable.
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