[ugh]

That makes a lot of sense. Fun fact: The astronauts on the ISS use ThinkPads [0]. They would have to disable the accelerometer if their laptops had one.

(I’m now just going to claim that zero was the extreme I was referring to.)

[0] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Susan_Helms_...

Edit: The laptop in question — model A31p from 2003 — doesn’t have an accelerometer. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:A31p