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Originally Posted by ASD20
Not always. One of our matches this year, our driver station was knocked off the shelf even with velcro. The hit was so bad that they apparently moved the alliance wall by like 3 inches. Luckily we caught it, but nothing is a substitute for having spares.
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What sort of velcro were you using? The white industrial stuff is what we used and I could barely take the laptop off the velcro in the beginning. We took a good amount of nasty hits and never had the laptop even budge.
I also should mention a laptop like a ThinkPad with an ssd in it is fairly resistant to a drop from that height. The big failure mode of a laptop in schock scenarios is a failed hard drive since it's a mechanical part. Because ssds are flash based they can take a hit and function fine.
Regardless a spare laptop for programming is nice but if your on a budget it's not even close to necessary. I always have my laptop at competitions and it has a copy of everything we would ever need but we have never had to use it.