This just his Cringley again today.. my e-mail to him:
How does this still get any press? A two minute look at the record, and you would not have had to dip this far into the past to find something to fill your column. Thomas Forqueran had an Dell Inspiron 1300/B130 ( It was the cheapest of the cheap). It was not subject to the recall and did not have the batteries that had problems.You'll even see that it was burned on one corner (right front) while the battery was in the right rear edge of the laptop.
In short, the burn was no where near a battery that was not in the recall list. It looks like the gentleman bought the cheapest Dell he could find, then torched his truck -- perhaps to make a few bucks off of a "big company" that would pay him an inflated value.
He should have checked the recall list first, and made sure the laptop burned somewhere near the battery second.
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This just his Cringley again today.. my e-mail to him:
How does this still get any press? A two minute look at the record, and you would not have had to dip this far into the past to find something to fill your column. Thomas Forqueran had an Dell Inspiron 1300/B130 ( It was the cheapest of the cheap). It was not subject to the recall and did not have the batteries that had problems.You'll even see that it was burned on one corner (right front) while the battery was in the right rear edge of the laptop.
In short, the burn was no where near a battery that was not in the recall list. It looks like the gentleman bought the cheapest Dell he could find, then torched his truck -- perhaps to make a few bucks off of a "big company" that would pay him an inflated value.
He should have checked the recall list first, and made sure the laptop burned somewhere near the battery second.