engadget.com — In a time when you're not even allowed to say the word "bomb" in an airport (hey, it's for good reason), it's got to be like, really freaking embarrassing to have to run up the jetway at full speed, shoving other passengers out of the way as your flaming laptop explodes on the ground
Sep 16, 2006 View in Crawl 4
daines88Sep 16, 2006
These laptops are really starting to piss me the hell off. Pretty soon every airport, train station or bus company (basically any means of traveling) will not allow laptops or any kind of electronic device with a battery onboard. Then what will be the point of owning a laptop at all? Sony f**ked up big on this one.
kevnacaSep 16, 2006
OMFG if this happened when he was on board a plane he would get death threats because he ruined bringing a laptop on board for the rest of us. It would have been a pandemonium on that plane. But it wasn't really his fault. Who actually makes IBM batteries, Sony or Mitsus**ta?
splitt3rxxSep 16, 2006
get an Hp laptop, they don't explode ;)
emorphienSep 17, 2006
Looks like a T4x to me as well, I have a T43p.
monkeybutlerSep 17, 2006
But was the computer on? The guy was running with a laptop and dropped it supposedly. So did the impact cause this or what? Its pretty crazy to know something we keep on our laps can burst into flames at any second.
kev585Sep 17, 2006
Hp's don't explode but from my experience that'd be an improvement over their performance. Two people I know have heat issues with their Hp laptops and an Hp laptop I own, and I have since replaced with an IBM, can not rip a CD without dieing.
gyrfalconSep 17, 2006
Besides being fake... who cares?