engadget.com— We just got word that a Yahoo empoyee's laptop went up in flames today at their Mission College campus down in Silicon Valley, causing hundreds of Yahoo employees to be evacuated from an 8-story building.
Sep 20, 2006View in Crawl 4
As per the Yahoo employee blogs I know about, this actually happened. I was IM'd from a Sidekick about the "fire alarm" from my highschool friend. The battery was taken out of a contractor's machine because the battery was hot. Nobody cares it was a Dell, at the time. The battery asploded causing a multipoint cubicle fire. Surprisingly, the Dell wasnt flammable, but did take some retardent. Why this would every be considered a conspiracy (That's not really a Dell!), is really a nice treatise on the collective stupidity of the internet bloggosphere. Welcome to the interweb 2.0
if anything i would agree that there is a problem with the battery, but i still say that the dell laptops charge/ discharge the battery in such a way that causes the battery to explode too. theres a problem with the dell too. so fault lies on both companies. thats probably why dell laptops are thusfar the most likely to cause such incidents. a LARGE portion of the laptop industry are using those same sony cells and i've only heard of two incidents where the laptop was not a dell. being generous if there are maybe 20 explosions out of 12+ million sony cells... better yet, 20 dells out of 4 million sony cells exploding, i would say that its easier to buy a winning lottery ticket. someone somewhere did something wrong, so now its on the companies to continue to look for the needle in the haystack.also keep in mind that every laptop and every battery cell is tested by dell, tested and certified by UL, etc etc etc and therefore shouldn't be allowed to reach the market if it causes problems like this. there are ALOT of guilty parties here. sony and dell only being the biggest two.
salmonizedSep 20, 2006
Burn in DELL!!!!
jack9Sep 21, 2006
As per the Yahoo employee blogs I know about, this actually happened. I was IM'd from a Sidekick about the "fire alarm" from my highschool friend. The battery was taken out of a contractor's machine because the battery was hot. Nobody cares it was a Dell, at the time. The battery asploded causing a multipoint cubicle fire. Surprisingly, the Dell wasnt flammable, but did take some retardent. Why this would every be considered a conspiracy (That's not really a Dell!), is really a nice treatise on the collective stupidity of the internet bloggosphere. Welcome to the interweb 2.0
archivistSep 21, 2006
hundreds evacuate? that's rubbish
apoc06Sep 21, 2006
if anything i would agree that there is a problem with the battery, but i still say that the dell laptops charge/ discharge the battery in such a way that causes the battery to explode too. theres a problem with the dell too. so fault lies on both companies. thats probably why dell laptops are thusfar the most likely to cause such incidents. a LARGE portion of the laptop industry are using those same sony cells and i've only heard of two incidents where the laptop was not a dell. being generous if there are maybe 20 explosions out of 12+ million sony cells... better yet, 20 dells out of 4 million sony cells exploding, i would say that its easier to buy a winning lottery ticket. someone somewhere did something wrong, so now its on the companies to continue to look for the needle in the haystack.also keep in mind that every laptop and every battery cell is tested by dell, tested and certified by UL, etc etc etc and therefore shouldn't be allowed to reach the market if it causes problems like this. there are ALOT of guilty parties here. sony and dell only being the biggest two.
picktureSep 21, 2006
Somebody set up us the bomb!
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