[Nowhere Man]

Not even a microprocessor will be affected. There simply isn’t enough EMF generated by EMP to create enough energy to harm anything that small. Inductance is the name of the game here and EMP just doesn’t provide enough energy to induce high enough currents in such short wires to do damage. Nearby Lightening bolts generate more force and we don’t all freak out about those and we recover just fine from those bolts that do strike things like power lines.

I know there were times when the space shuttle flew through the lower end of the Van Allen Radiation Belts in the Southern Hemisphere where it did disrupt some of the laptops aboard but after they orbited out of there, they rebooted just fine.

[CodeToad]

A laptop in space is also most likely not a hardened laptop and in an extremely hostile environment. Of course, disrupting the circuits with what amounts to electrical noise would disrupt a laptop but not kill it dead. Reboot and all is well. Even some solar activities can cause a few issues here on Earth but no one except those that must reboot notice. Major systems that run power grids, factories, and airplanes are all designed not to be susceptible to such interference and they aren’t.