theinquirer.net— AN INQUIRER READER attending a conference in Japan was sat just feet away from a laptop computer that suddenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident.
Jun 21, 2006View in Crawl 4
They would not take back my battery. It was the wrong date or something. But one day when I was charging it ( in my laptop ) it got hot. Not warm. HOT. I ran with it in my hand ( it hurt ) and tossed it into my freezer. About 2 hours later and I open the freezer and it was still warm. I'm still using it I mixed it up with my other battery so I'm not sure now. But I always check to see if my battery is hot.Dell? BURN IN HELL!
Sorry to ruin all the fun, but I loathe Dell and live in Japan. There has been absolutely nothing in the news about an incendiary laptop. I think it would have made the news, except for the possibility that they are too preoccupied with runaway elevators that crush people to death. That is real.I know. I despise Dell as much if not more than anyone else. Where was the alleged conference in Japan?
>I guess dell gets to join the elite Flaming laptop club that Apple belongs to now...If you're talking about the PB 5300, ummm, you're slightly misinformed. One of them did have the battery overheat - it was a pre-release unit at an Apple engineer's house. However, the machine didn't explode, or even catch fire. By the way, guess who we can blame for that one? Sony's dodgy lithium ion batteries. (BTW, the final versions of that unit shipped with Ni-MH batteries, and the small number of Li-Ion batteries that were sold were promptly recalled).If you're talking about that iBook that supposedly "ignited", that was faked. If you look at the video, it even caught fire from the wrong side - the hard disk apparently exploded. Yeah. That makes sense.The fact that 42 people dugg something that misleading is worrying.Of course, as your name suggests... maybe you are just trolling, and I've wasted my time with a response...
Dugg me down with comments like:"ok so the odds of this happening are 1 in 100,000,000, the odds of this happening on a plane, much much less I think I would be more worried about the plane spontainously dispearing/combusting/turning into a whale or having a head on collision with an oncomming car then this happening"and"Even if it did happen on a plane I would be willing to bet they have fire extinguishers on airplanes and that flight attendants are trained to use them in such an event."Yeah whatever! Seems I was right smart-asses!"The National Safety Transportation Board thinks it's possible that lithium-ion batteries caused a fire that destroyed a United Parcel Service airplane on Feb 8, 2006. The FAA already bans non-rechargeable lithium batteries from air shipment because aircraft don't carry fire suppression equipment capable of extinguishing lithium fires." - <a class="user" href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/17/1857232">http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/17/1857232</a>
mikeefreshJun 21, 2006
Someone was watching the broken.
jvletiziaJun 21, 2006
This computer will self destruct in 5 seconds! 4.....3....2...Boom!
t0nyJun 21, 2006
They would not take back my battery. It was the wrong date or something. But one day when I was charging it ( in my laptop ) it got hot. Not warm. HOT. I ran with it in my hand ( it hurt ) and tossed it into my freezer. About 2 hours later and I open the freezer and it was still warm. I'm still using it I mixed it up with my other battery so I'm not sure now. But I always check to see if my battery is hot.Dell? BURN IN HELL!
lcllamJun 22, 2006
What? No Middle East comments yet?
greyareaJun 23, 2006
Yep, I completely screwed up that last line. There was simply too much blood in my caffeine stream...
drbudroJun 24, 2006
If Lithium Ion batteries are doing this, then I can't wait for Hydrogen Cells to power laptops!
anonconformistJun 25, 2006
Sorry to ruin all the fun, but I loathe Dell and live in Japan. There has been absolutely nothing in the news about an incendiary laptop. I think it would have made the news, except for the possibility that they are too preoccupied with runaway elevators that crush people to death. That is real.I know. I despise Dell as much if not more than anyone else. Where was the alleged conference in Japan?
danixdefcon5Jun 29, 2006
"Arr, matey! Shiver me timbers! Me battery just exploded!!!"So much for the Francis Drake laptop...
xtremegt2Jun 29, 2006
the link didn't work for me, but i replaced the article number, into a link for another article<a class="user" href="http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550">http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550</a>
t3hxJul 4, 2006
>I guess dell gets to join the elite Flaming laptop club that Apple belongs to now...If you're talking about the PB 5300, ummm, you're slightly misinformed. One of them did have the battery overheat - it was a pre-release unit at an Apple engineer's house. However, the machine didn't explode, or even catch fire. By the way, guess who we can blame for that one? Sony's dodgy lithium ion batteries. (BTW, the final versions of that unit shipped with Ni-MH batteries, and the small number of Li-Ion batteries that were sold were promptly recalled).If you're talking about that iBook that supposedly "ignited", that was faked. If you look at the video, it even caught fire from the wrong side - the hard disk apparently exploded. Yeah. That makes sense.The fact that 42 people dugg something that misleading is worrying.Of course, as your name suggests... maybe you are just trolling, and I've wasted my time with a response...
amcerJul 17, 2006
Dugg me down with comments like:"ok so the odds of this happening are 1 in 100,000,000, the odds of this happening on a plane, much much less I think I would be more worried about the plane spontainously dispearing/combusting/turning into a whale or having a head on collision with an oncomming car then this happening"and"Even if it did happen on a plane I would be willing to bet they have fire extinguishers on airplanes and that flight attendants are trained to use them in such an event."Yeah whatever! Seems I was right smart-asses!"The National Safety Transportation Board thinks it's possible that lithium-ion batteries caused a fire that destroyed a United Parcel Service airplane on Feb 8, 2006. The FAA already bans non-rechargeable lithium batteries from air shipment because aircraft don't carry fire suppression equipment capable of extinguishing lithium fires." - <a class="user" href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/17/1857232">http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/17/1857232</a>
greenapple123Sep 8, 2006
I bought a replacement battery for my Dell laptop about a month ago from <a class="user" href="http://www.laptopsforless.com/laptopbattery/dell-battery">http://www.laptopsforless.com/laptopbattery/dell-battery</a> and it works great. Is there any reason to think that a replacement Dell laptop battery would be any worse than the manufacturers?
teflon07Oct 11, 2006
This is exactly what happens when you let windows XP manage your virtual memory settings.