We have a lot of posts on how to carry electronics, laptops, whatever, but I don't think they've ever been tested. Well, I've had this dell laptop for 3 yrs now, toting in a waterfield(?) sleeve inside a pannier, and about a month ago the battery stopped charging fully, and then last week it stopped charging at all. There has been a ding to the case of the battery for a long time, and the ding, I noticed yesterday, started propagating into a crack.

I have no idea if the ding came w/ the battery (I got a doomed one in the first place), or if the ding, and spread to a crack, has anything to do with biking (throwing it in a bag into a car trunk all those years could have been just as bad maybe).

Anyway, new battery arrived yesterday and now I'm good to go until the case falls apart (it's got a lot of chips in it too, I think Dell went crazy on the weight-weenie-ism for this model)