Taking a sledge-hammer to my PC

This MESH desktop computer has caused me SO much stress over the last few months. You know the sort of thing - repeatedly hanging, and then finally a series of almighty crashes... And ultimately the shudder-causing message: 'Cannot load the hive'. Ouch. I eventually retrieved nearly everything from it, in short, five minute bursts of transfers, in the gaps between the loading-crashing-loading cycle.
Finally, with my new laptop up and running, safely loaded, and with a good external hard-drive in place, I thought I'd have a little revenge. So I indulged in a long-held fantasy, and smashed the thing to pieces. It was surprisingly hard.