I appreciate the article’s rhetorical flair:

The bullet crashed through the LCD screen, giving the keypad a good slap in the teeth before wedging itself in the internal hard disk. Presumably it lay on the desert floor bleeding battery fluid for several minutes as its owner desperately tried, in vain, to save its life.

It is not known whether the laptop would have had a better chance of surviving the assault, had it been installed with the 'ultra-safe' Windows Vista operating system.

It's not bulletproof if it didn't keep working.

Bulletproof vests need to be discarded after being shot.

A vest is bulletproof if you can shoot it and the human inside it keeps working. A laptop case is bulletproof if you can shoot it and... ?

If a human gets shot - even wearing a vest - they usually need a break, don't they?

...the human behind it keeps working.

Not without their laptop they won't be working.

You obviously need to replace it just like you would with a bulletproof vest ;)

I'd advise that human to invest in some body armor, for a variety of reasons. But it sounds like we're not talking about the same thing.

They are indeed a one-shot deal.