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Could exploding laptops be a potential terrorist threat on airplanes? Seems feasible.]]>Aug 18th 2006 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/In short: The laptop started to emit smoke while the guy was on holiday in Hungary (could the power outlets there have somthing to do with it?), After the smoke a flame appeared, after a second flame the battery continued to burn. When the fire was put out (the guys were asleep at the time, but due to one of them sleeping in the livingroom in which the laptop was situated a serious fire was stopped), they also noticed that the battery acid had leaked all over that gorgeous piece of TV furniture.
That's about it really.]]>Aug 18th 2006 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.appledefects.com/?p=76

for the mac fans...]]>Aug 18th 2006 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/-----

You know the Macs are exploding too, right?]]>Aug 18th 2006 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
Uh...

Anyways, here's a real-life story that may possibly illustrate why folks aren't turning in their batteries. A conversation between myself and a friend with a recently purchased Dell laptop.

ME: Seriously, heed the recall, man.
FRIEND: Will everything on my computer get erased if I unplug the battery?

I'm not making that up.]]>Aug 18th 2006 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/

AMSTERDAM - Not only in America and Japan Dell laptops spontaniously catch fire. Now a Dutch laptop had the problem. Ewout Hooijer was on holyday in Hongary, when at night smoke started coming out of the accu of his laptop. Moments later the laptop cought fire. "luckily the damage was only material" says Hooijer.
De Duthcman had rented a home with some friends in Hongary. One of his friends slept on the couch in the livingroom. Bacouse of that the fire was discovered quickly. After the battery had cought fire it became clear that the battery was leaking. According to Hooijer the battery was melted to the tv-table on wich the laptop was standing.
"After the first flame, there came a nother big flame [I don't know what a 'steekvlam' is in Englisch, so I'll just keep it to flame], after wich the battery kept burning", says Hooijer. "we put the battery in a metal trashcan and put it outside. Putting water on it didn't help. With sand we finaly managed to put out the fire."

The laptop, a Latitude D510, was destroyed completely. Hooijer made contact with Dell from Hongary and they promised to get him a net Laptop. "That's nesecery because I use it for my daily work" says Hooijer.

On tuesday the American computermanufacturer announced a recall for 4,1 milion battery's because they could get overheated and catch fire. Untill now there are 6 known laptop fire's with dell laptops

A representative from Dell didn't want to tell Nu.nl how many laptop fire's there have been in the Netherlands. Neither did they give any information on how many battery's have been returned yet.]]>Aug 18th 2006 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
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A Mac Owner.]]>Aug 18th 2006 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.nu.nl/news/805108/50/Ook_Nederlandse_Dell-laptop_ontploft.html
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I use Apple, Dell, HP, and they each have a strong point. When you start on the whole virus thing, you are just inciting people. So shut the hell up, and comment on relavent information in the story. ]]>Aug 18th 2006 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
I have a Mac too, if you count a VAIO running OS X 10.4.6

I guess I should not be so smug, after all, I have a Sony oh noooooo!
]]>Aug 18th 2006 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.firemarshals.org/docs/Dean_to_WSJ_8.15.06pdf.pdf. Where are the others?]]>Aug 18th 2006 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Oh, and that'll pwn both your dell and you mac, so _|_

Anyway, enough of that childishness.

When are people going to send there batteries back? surely theyre going to learn at somepoint..]]>Aug 18th 2006 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/

Relevance, Jamie?]]>Aug 18th 2006 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/4 Million Dell Laptops sold in the past 2 years. 6 go boom. Not a devastating problem but certainly an issue anybody would think that they are spreading a disease.
All I really know on the matter is at least Dell warranty will assist you in this problem to a quick resolution compared to Apple who always seem to pretend to not be in when you call.."Warranty what warranty?". How come Powerbooks aren't making the same front pages?? iPropaganda
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/06/another-powerbook-violently-explodes/]]>Aug 18th 2006 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
Might have to go on eBay and buy myself a cheap one, and set light to it.
Jump on the bandwagon, I never heard of any laptop omfbbqg!!11!explosions before the original video and article last month or so.]]>Aug 18th 2006 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
So far as I know a macbook and a couple of powerook have "exploded". But this Dell recall is the largest in the history of the industry which is probably why they are making the front pages.

And, actually, when I was watching a BBC news report on this problems they made a point of explaining that Apple laptops have had serious problems with their batteries as well as Dell.]]>Aug 18th 2006 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
I must say that Dell is handling this the best. When you go to dell.com, there is a link to the battery recall page on the botom of the main page, and it shows you where to look to se if your battery could be more flame to the exploding battery fire. On apple's web site, you have to go to the support page and on the side, there is a battery recal window, and it has a selection of laptop models, and does not make it as simple as dell's to recall your battery.

These differences in how they are handling it may be because of the volume. From estimating, I would say that abou teh same percent of Dells are exploding as Apples. Dell has more because they have sold more machines, so it is not that Dells explode, it is mostly Sony's fault for making faulty or dangerous batteries.]]>Aug 18th 2006 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://kd7lrj.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-info-on-burning-dell-at-novell.html) wasn't manufactured by Dell. It's a problem with the manufacturing of the Li-ION cells (by Sony and/or their assigns; Dell seems to be caught in the middle of this mess.]]>Aug 18th 2006 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
You idiot. Computers are not some magical world where some have "tendencies" to get more viruses or crash. For a virus to infect a computer, someone has to write the virus. Everyone with a brain knows that Windows has a giant market share. So, if you're going to write a virus and want to infect the maximum amount of users, which OS will you write it for?]]>Aug 18th 2006 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
My battery has overheated twice and it is not under the recall!
Talk about service...]]>Aug 18th 2006 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
Anyway, I really hate to get in on the Mac bashing, but it's so much fun, so here we go. I built my desktop PC myself. Yeah, I know, to Mac users that sounds really hard and/or scary, but it's fun and easy. True story: I was playing some game online and a bunch of people ganged up on me and started talking about how great their Macs were. They used the classic arguments about how Windows machines crash all the time and have to reboot and get lots of viruses, blah blah blah... I was pointing out that you could build a more powerful computer for half the price of a Mac, and someone said "yeah, and fry it in the process?". That made me laugh, and just drove my point home. Macs users are oftentimes (not all, mind you) people who want their computer to be the digital equivalent of a tricycle. Easy, little to no customization, and hard to crash. Tricyles are "safe", but you still drive a car everywhere, don't you?

Macs don't piss me off, their owners do. I think I'll put that on a t-shirt...

What were we talking about? Oh, Dell batteries... Isn't it customary to, you know, test things before you sell them? Like, leave the computer on for a few weeks straight or something? Did they not do this? It's nice that they're replacing it for free, but why did this happen in the first place?]]>Aug 18th 2006 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/Aug 18th 2006 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a-dell-laptop-goes-boom-in-the-night/
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Where is the HP recall. I want a new battery for my HP before this happens to me]]>Aug 18th 2006 9:22PM