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Can sombody please help me with these two lines. I sounds not great when you read it.

Often during work the laptop falls on the ground, caused by difficult accessible places where your feet are caught up with cable linger.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Hello, Albert—and welcome to English Forums.

I cannot quite understand the situation. What is the connection between the laptop and the feet?

Dimsumexpress · Answer

Often during work the laptop falls on the ground, caused by difficult accessible places where your feet are caught up with cable linger.

I guess what I gathered was the laptop in the office kept getting yanked off the desk, probably from being connected to a power supply with its cable dangling loose in tight space where foot traffic is constant.

Mister Micawber · Answer

Well, let us wait for Albert to reply; speculation does not make progress.

Albert de Groof · Answer

Dear Mister Micawber and dimsumexpress

Thank you for your reply. The two line are for a report about a laptop. See below

To: Head, Inventory Dept. From: de Groof, Albert Subject: Laptop T316

Background
I would like to inform you about a new model laptop on the market. I came across an article about this new model and decided to write to you a short report, to compare this laptop with the laptops we use at this moment.

Objectives
The objectives of this report are to compare the rugged type model the T316 laptop with our standard laptops.

Technical specification T316 laptop

Review
The work environment of our service engineers are mostly in bad places, like machine rooms, ships and cranes. These environments are not suitable for a standard laptop.

Often during work the laptop falls on the ground, caused by difficult accessible places where your feet are caught up with cable linger. Our company has already bought 5 new laptops because of this. The T316 can handle those shocks.

Also important is the shock mounted removable hard disk. A couple of months ago one of our commission engineers dropped his laptop. The laptop was broken but also the hard disk. The hard disk contained measuring data of two weeks.
At this moment we have 12 commission engineers working for the firm. The laptop costs 2000 euros each. It would be an investment of 24000 euros. If we invest in 12 laptops at once we could get a discount of 12 %.

Conclusion
The main conclusion that can be drawn: The T316 laptop is very suitable for our applications. Because the robust design of the T316, it has a longer life time than the Dell 300. The T316 is more expensive to buy because it costs 400 euros more than a Dell 300. But in the long run it is cheaper, because it has a longer lifetime than the Dell 300. The average lifespan of the Dell 300 is one year.

Recommendations
In the light of these conclusions, I recommend that our laptops should be replaced by the new T316. If the investment is too much I recommend that we buy one T316 and review it over a year.

Dimsumexpress · Answer

Hi,
You still haven't answered what your feet had to do with the fallen laptop! I guess that was what MM was saying. Did your feet kick the electrical core connected to the laptop to cause them to fall? This is where we are not able to visualize how the laptop dropping is connected to your feet getting caught up in wires....

Albert de Groof · Answer

Sorry . "Did your feet kick the electrical core connected to the laptop to cause them to fall?" yes that correct

Dimsumexpress · Answer

That was what I thought you implied but not in so many words<img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/2.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/2.gif' alt='Emotion: big smile'/>

Albert de Groof · Answer

I found it hard to put this line in a nice way.

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