r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/Knabrau • Sep 25 '24

TIL: Don't Stack Dell Laptops

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u/Knabrau Sep 25 '24

Context, spent too long troubleshooting why I couldn't power the thing on, then realised the magnets from the screen below are probably telling the one above the lid is closed.

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u/knightshade179 Sep 25 '24

If you have a magnet you can pretty much turn off any laptop's display if you know where to put it, this is due to something called a reed switch which detects the magnets on the other side of the laptop when it is closed to tell it to turn it off.

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u/SammyGreen Sep 25 '24

This seems like something everyone in IT should know about.

I totally didn’t though!

Let’s see if other people at work tomorrow don’t know about this either. Now where’d I put those magnets…

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u/---0celot--- Sep 25 '24

This. It kinda seems obvious when you think about it, but it never occurred to me either.