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How many laptops before the bottom-most laptop fails from the pressure?
If the bottom laptop is a Dell Latitude I think they don’t recommend stacking them at all, but with HP Elitebooks I think we got away with stacks about 15-20 high before we had the risk of getting damaged screens. Probably 10x that before structural failure, but they’d more than likely compress down instead of one side before the other.
...as if the point ever neared actually doing it..?
The thought of stacking them reminded me of this: https://www.brothers-brick.com/2012/12/05/how-many-lego-bricks-stacked-vertically-would-crush-the-bottom-brick/