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What an uninspiring brand.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Maybe the guy accidentally pressed the self destruction button!!!
He, he, he !!!!
Maybe the Dell must add a fire extinguisher in every package... :).]]>Jun 22nd 2006 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/You also forgot to mention the crap parts they put into their systems.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Sep 11th 2008 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Sep 11th 2008 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
If you see the second picture, you notice that the flame is out side the notebook plus none of the notebooks looks damage. Also with such explosion, you expect that the notebook would be blasted on to the floor.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/That's probably the most unconvincing debunking I've ever heard.

@Slacker,
Do you have any evidence of anything in the vicinity of a MB(P) melting? If so, share with the class.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
Also, look at the reactions of the bystanders, in the "explosion" photo. Yes, they are looking - but not with much concern evident. The gentleman on the right who is looking over his shoulder isn't even flinching away, yet he is clearly within feet of an "exploding" laptop.

I don't buy it. There may have been a fire, the scorch marks look fairly realistic. But the description & two photos (particularily the more dramatic one) do not fit together.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.tuaw.com/2006/06/01/ibook-battery-catches-fire/]]>Jun 22nd 2006 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
not pretty, and very not fun.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
It'd fun to expose soft metals to oxygen in science class (ever dropped a wad of pure sodium in water?), but it's not so fun in your computer.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
Does that change the fact that Dells use proprietary parts and low wattage power supplies? Does that change their 4.36/10 resellerrating? No. Consumer Dells are NOT built to last.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
I believe this is real, I have seen several videos of over charged lithium batteries, its crazy. and if you ask me, those people are definately flinching away from the fire.

As for the scorch marks, I think that they would probably be caused by the initial explosion so they would stay the same in all of the pictures.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
Anyone else notice the tangle of wires on the tables?

]]>Jun 22nd 2006 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 22nd 2006 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
And what about this happening on an airplane? At least planes are freezing cold and most people use the tray - but it seems like it could cause some problems - especially if it happens over mid-ocean. It would be a really uncomfortable hour, or two, before they could land the plane to fully air out the cabin.

(not like I actually know anything about how the ventilation system on an aircraft works)]]>Jun 22nd 2006 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Awww, what a pity!!! HEHEHE.
Burn mofo! Burn. heha]]>Jun 23rd 2006 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 23rd 2006 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
Sorry, but nothing in your PC is explosive enough to create that kind of reaction... except the chemicals in an improperly manufactured battery.

Dell is most likely hardly to blame... this is something I'd expect from the $10 batteries on eBay. Chinese sweatshop manufacturing at it's finest.]]>Jun 23rd 2006 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 23rd 2006 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
"it was using an aftermarket battery which exceeded the cell rating and overheated, plus the fan was broken so the computer was one big hot plate"

@Paul: Dammmit! Post right before yours! "...Dells use proprietary parts and low wattage power supplies...." And unless their acquisition of Alienware suddenly enabled their grunt workers able to put a computer together better under the same conditions and in the same facilities as before with the same parts as before...forget that train of thought: they're still shoddy pieces of workmanship, just like last week.]]>Jun 23rd 2006 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 23rd 2006 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
Damn! what a riot. you guys make me laugh out loud with your comments and i'm pretending to be quietly doing my work. Is this a Kodak Momentor what? i smell a crispy class action lawsuit.

While the whole incident is dangerous and i'm sure scare the bejesus of of anyone next to that thing there's not a direct hyperlink to the actual news article that indicates it's a Dell.

It could be a Mac with a defective battery pack. Although the Chinese love cheapos and statistics show 6-out-of-10-desktops and laptops sold in China are Dell so i guess it's a Dell our should i say a D'Hell.]]>Jun 23rd 2006 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 23rd 2006 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 23rd 2006 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 23rd 2006 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
The Dell from Hell]]>Jun 23rd 2006 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/Jun 23rd 2006 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
These photos are very likely fake. The picture is in mid-explosion...who is that fast with a camera phone? The people aren't hardly having a reaction, they're just looking at it. The lighting that the fake explosion makes on the man to the right of it does not fit in the scene one bit. Also look at the illumination of the chair almost blocked by the explosion, does that look real to you?]]>Jun 23rd 2006 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/===============
All the horror stories you here are either lies, someone who didn't treat their computer properly, or the one in a million chance that something actually went wrong (as with all computers).
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So I've got about 2200 leased Dells here at work. Over the past 2 years we have had at least 1 hard drive failure PER WEEK. In addition to that Dell just came in and did a warranty motherboard replacement due to bad capacitors on close to half of them. That puts me around 55% chance of failure in 2 years. If I graph that linearly (and I admit not the best method when dealing with percentages) that gives me...

A "one in a million chance" that the Dell on my desk will have a hardware failure in the next 3 hours and 11 minutes!

How did you arrive at your "one in a million" statistic?


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