zeniv.linux.org.uk — Even Linux gurus are susceptible to the perils of exploding batteries - last night famed kernel hacker Alan Cox's IBM Thinkpad battery burst into flames and exploded. Follow the link for an in-depth story in Telsa's inimitable style and photos of the laptop's remains.
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yoshi39Sep 23, 2006
If you put a firecracker in a bucket and close the lid (assuming the lid closes tight enough to turn the bucket into shrapnel) would you describe it to your friends as: a)I put a firecracker into a bucket and the firecracker exploded or b)I put a firecracker into a bucket and the bucket exploded into tiny little pieces?
venezianSep 23, 2006
lol.. i agree. i pretty much live with thinkpads at work. the first time we got to test them, it was the T42 series and we went outside and threw it up in the air and let it land on concrete, some pieces broke off, but the laptop works to this day. we use it as a back up for sales guys. now i'm wondering if i should start turning off my laptop. not a thinkpad, but it's a lenovo N100
mfrattSep 23, 2006
"Why don't they put bloody heat sensors on laptop batteries!"They do, at least recently. I dont know about the 600 series, but both my old T43 and current X60s have them.
greatblackowlSep 23, 2006
It's probably always been a problem, but now that Dell and Apple (and maybe others, too?) have recalled some of their computers, it's getting more media time.
baalzebubSep 23, 2006
these laptop manufactureres better get it together because sooner or later one of these laptops are going to injure a human...that smokey laptop smells a class action lawsuit...
quixSep 23, 2006
bi0metric, your idiotic trollish rants actually make flag564 sound intelligent. Not an easy feat...Obsessed with Apple much?
sumgiSep 23, 2006
Well the article says IBM is investigating and that the remains of the label recovered may point to an original IBM battery though who manufactured that is anyone's guess..*%cough*cough&*SONY^#cough. I have an IBM G40 and it's a good laptop but the battery gets hotter than deathsauce on a jalapeño cheese burger, If I had a girlfriend I might fear for my ability to reproduce.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2006
My GOD!You could hide a goat in that thing!
Closed AccountSep 23, 2006
Not sure if you should do that.The probs with apple notebooks exploding all seemed to occur when the machine was turned off (or in standby mode).Best to probably just remove the battery if you know you're not going to be using it for a while, and pop it in a metak cake tin in the middle of the backyard just in case it 'goes off'.
nofxjunkeeSep 23, 2006
What the hell is wrong with these manufacturers? Can you imagine if any other machine in your house just exploded into a ball of fire? No one would every buy one.
tech42erSep 23, 2006
OK wibble, I'll take the bait, since I like your spirited defense. If I got a battery and dropped it from 35,000 ft it would explode, just like the airplane. Let's say, however, that the airplane was just running, should the battery explode then (because that's what's happening with these Li-Ions)?
davearterSep 24, 2006Submitter
Hahaha, some of you people clearly don't realise that the 'even Linux gurus' bit was a joke - I wasn't bashing _any_ OS.
Closed AccountSep 26, 2006
Dell didn't learn a few years ago when a house caught fire and a teenage girl died due to the fire started by the laptop.