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[Plenoptic]

Well I read this article earlier this week and thought I would share it. A Dell laptop blew up at a conference in Japan. lol I thought it was sort of funny, luckily no one was hurt and it wasn't on that person's lap (ouch). Some think it could be related to a battery recall made a while back recalling atleast 22,000 batteries. This computer actually looks like mine, hopefully mine doesn't do the same thing. I have never heard anything like this before. Sort of scary to believe that the laptop you are losing could blow up severly injuring someone or killing them. I guess it had little explosions, several them within five minutes.

Here is a link to the article: http://www.theinquir...x?article=32550

[husker]

Wow, that's scary. I'm not buying a Dell laptop now lol. I'm sure it will never happen again though. Although I don't think I believe the Inquirer.

Edited by husker, 02 July 2006 - 08:24 PM.

[dreus]

lol. The laptop looks like my 5150 and I must say, that baby does get hot after a while. Will it explode with flames permeating in and out of it? I sure hope not. But yeah, if this was really a big concern, I'm sure Dell would have made a more public recall (as I don't remember hearing about anything of the like on the news). It's probably just an isolated case.

[Sinari]

I believe that there has been a recall of batteries. I was hearing something before I left home about laptop batteries but I seldom pay any attention to stuff such as that. Sounds scary though.... At least no one got hurt. Yet....

[Plenoptic]

Ya like I said earlier there was a recall on batteries but they never said that that is what it was related to. My laptop also looks like that but it is an Inspiron 1150 (non continued) and it gets really hot after a while but hasn't blown up yet. I don't think it will, it seemed like a once in a thousand chance.

[gameratheart]

husker, on Jul 2 2006, 04:21 AM, said:

Wow, that's scary. I'm not buying a Dell laptop now lol. I'm sure it will never happen again though. Although I don't think I believe the Inquirer.

I don't believe it either. Many "news" websites have been making up fake stories, or publishing ones that other people made up. So you need to be able to trust the source. And I'm afraid to say the Inquirer is not a trusted news source.

And I don't know if there was a recall of batteries or whatever, though I think there was. Without a known reason for the recall, however, that is a moot point. After all, it could be that the recall was for a completely different reason, and that people are just trying to prove something that isn't even remotely true.

If it really did happen, however, then I am just thankful that there were no injuries, and hope it doesn't happen again. But then, unless someone tampers with them, it is a one-in-a-million chance.

[Madkat-Z]

I know this is rather morbid of me but...."Dude...your getting a Bomb".

Anyway, I hope there are more explosions and no one gets hurt. I also don't trust the source too much, but I find the idea rather comical.

[FirefoxRocks]

Exploding laptops?

I'm not buying a laptop for a while now. I have a Dell Dimension Desktop but currently not interested in laptop computers. They are portable and conveinient, but not a priority in my life as of now.

[fffanatics]

That is very interesting. However, i guess eventually a laptop was going to explode from malfunctioning. They have been out for so long with out any issues like this so it was bound to happen. Thankfully no one was hurt and hopefully it wont happen in the near future again.

[Tetraca]

Wow, it's not like that gets covered every day. If people cared to learn if there was a recall on their product if this would even happen. Also, a Digg poster noticed one thing about all these laptops in these stories - they all had their liud closed and were most likely on stand-by mode, so I suggest if you take care of your laptop be not putting in stand-by mode or using it for long periods of time you should be fine..