This has been going on for a long time—I remember the PowerBook 5300 (the first based on PowerPC, back in 1995) had a battery recall because the batteries (Apple's first lithium-ion batteries) would catch fire. That's over ten years of flaming laptops; when are we going to get some better safety standards?
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This has been going on for a long time—I remember the PowerBook 5300 (the first based on PowerPC, back in 1995) had a battery recall because the batteries (Apple's first lithium-ion batteries) would catch fire. That's over ten years of flaming laptops; when are we going to get some better safety standards?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook#The_PowerPC_era