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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+204...i see spurting flames,
bright light and smoke,
i see a man, wincing in pain,
and i think to myself, what a wonderful dell.... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+151Oh *****.... China sent us up the bomb!
So much for that new magnesium laptop frame technology...
...over clocking your laptop can be detrimental to your, uh, "lap". - raisinbran, on 10/12/2007, -13/+121Looks like cheap batteries could be at fault here.
- IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -8/+76What about SNAKES on a ***** plane???!!!!!!!
- Okayplayer, on 10/12/2007, -21/+80"What the ***** are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please." --Walter Sobchak
- BTime, on 10/12/2007, -8/+63Another satisfied Dell customer..
- kramer3d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+52DELL: Hello, 1800-DELL how can we help you?
GUY: My laptop blew up!
DELL: Sir, was your laptop plugged in? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+55Wow... just, wow. Your comment... It's like you're a walking satire, unaware of your own ridiculousness.
- dobesov, on 10/12/2007, -16/+57I guess dell gets to join the elite Flaming laptop club that Apple belongs to now...
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44"I just port scanned him and, like, his firewall *waaaaay* overreacted..."
- cderry, on 10/12/2007, -7/+36I blame video games and violence on TV.
- drwtsn32, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Could you imagine if that happened while it was on your lap? *shudder*
- antiz3r0, on 10/12/2007, -8/+37Hmmm I guess bill gates is trying a new way of dealing with pirated copies of windows lol
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -12/+40He was probably modded down because he originally had the Inquirer confused for a ***** tabloid know as the Enquirer. He changed his comment when he realised his mistake. Mod him up and quit bitching.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34I always knew Dell's had a dodgy firewall :P
- longofest, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29have you read the news lately? Made in CHINA.
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27Dont rule out a cheap foreign power adapter converter, since it was a conference with foreigners present.
- rderveloy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+31Apple compoents, Dell compents, all made in Taiwan!
- mutz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Burn In Dell!
- harryd, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26Beat that, pathetic Apple lightsabres!
- schlongmeister, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22It was actually an iBook that caught on fire, not a MacBook.
http://wcco.com/consumer/local_story_148150249.html - uptown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20...not to mention the snakes.
- Bootes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Haven't you been reading tech news long enough to know that this is a different Inquirer?
- longofest, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26Guess it isn't just Apple that has issues with their batteries :-/
- beardly, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24Actually the computers are made in Malaysia.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Actually, when I first saw the article headline, I automatically assumed it was one of those new, experimental fuel cell laptops. Now *that* would have been interesting.
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Solarwinds, that wasn't a racist comment. A sentence that has the word 'Indian' in it? ZOMG! RACIZMZ!
GTFO. - flipzmode, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18My mom is a doctor, and she was in a patients room who was using a laptop at the time, and it was in his lap. Without notice it burst into flames and pieces flew across the room, and my mom acutally put the guy out! It was linked to a 3rd party battery that he purchased on ebay... not the laptop.
Watch out for cheap stuff! - jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20I wonder if he'll talk to Indian tech support if he calls from Japan?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+26They are always copying Apple!!
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I'm guessing that it was an off-brand battery. Cheaply made LION batteries don't have as much casing around them. If the casing breaks or melts or otherwise opens up and lets air into the Lithium Ion Core, then yeah, you get a big, big fire. That ***** burns hot and fast.
Solution: Use quality LION batts. Don't skimp on that stuff. - iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22Ever think it was a cheap ass $20 replacement battery, and not really Dells fault?
- donatj, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19I wish they had the model number, that looks exactally like the laptop I'm on right now. A Dell D600...
- feylanks, on 10/12/2007, -15/+29those pictures are so unspokenly awesome.
- cderry, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20Dude, you got a.....fireball on your lap.
- MetalRemains, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Dell has ongoing battery recall replacement offers on its website.
https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com
In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Dell is voluntarily recalling and offering free replacements for certain notebook batteries that were sold for use with some models of Dell Latitude TM, Dell Precision TM and Dell Inspiron TM notebook computers. It is possible for these batteries to overheat, which could pose a risk of fire.
Potentially affected batteries were sold with the following models of Dell notebook computers or separately as secondary batteries:
* Latitude D410, D505, D510, D600, D610, D800, D810
* Inspiron 510M, 600M, 6000, 8600, 9200, 9300, XPS Gen 2
* Precision M20, M70 - forcedfx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18I think it looks like a D600 also. The one I'm using right now. Hopefully, they just bought a cheapo battery.
- 1911wolf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13There is no confirmation as to whether this was the computer or explosives going off. Could have been explosives, I have my own systems at home rigged to do the same if accessed by the wrong people.
- kcornwell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13OFF TOPIC:
This thread makes something very clear.
Digg needs a mod up/down comment identifier like slashdot. It's too simple (i.e. thumbs up, thumbs down). I like to generally know why a comment has -18 diggs or + 20.
Examples... Interesting, Off topic :), Funny, Insightful, etc.
I know that would make digg like slashdot. So what. It's a cool feature. - martinqc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10OK, uh, if Dell puts their name on it, it becomes Dell's fault. How many people remember all those capacitors that would bulge and burst due to bad manufacturing. The company accepts responsibility for things like that. However, in this case, my money's on a bad after market battery. Now that I have seen before.
BTW, the story states that it burned and produced several explosions for 5 minutes. I smell something wrong here and it is not burning plastic. This is probably the same guy that said later "It almost killed me and I was at the other end of the room!!!" Don't buy this one at face value. - thetaco82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10How is that a racist comment? I think you're just a hypersensitive twit. jer2eydevil88 didn't make a single generalization about Indians. Nothing good. Nothing bad. Nothing neutral. The generalization was of the inclination of companies to outsource their phone services to India.
Does it happen? Of course. Does it say anything at all about the Indian people? Not at all. The only conclusion about the Indian people that one can draw from jer2eydevil88's comment is that a subset of Indians answer phones. The same can be said about almost every group of people on this earth.
Please, take a deep breath and try to find your sense of humor. - PileOfMush, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I just love the "Dell Notebooks" ad up top. Rawk on, Google AdSense.
- bayonetblaha, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12agreed... what a douchebag, douchebag, douchebag!
did anyone else notice that guy saying everything three times? - Jams, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11It looks liek a Dell lattitude, possibly a D600+ series?
- crythias, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Because people from India call themselves ... Native Asians?
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13"1 in 100,000,000 cdrom failures, no problem - 1 in 100,000,000 laptop battery explosions that could happen on a jet liner full of people, UNACCEPTABLE!"
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 - twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Cool! And they're building fusion reactors too!
- longofest, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12it was an iBook (not a MacBook) that caught fire, and it was a little suspicious because it looked like it was still plugged in, yet it was outside.
I've seen 3 comments that loosely blame this on Dell, but they may not be warranted. Dells suck (its true), but batteries catching fire is pretty much an industry wide problem which NEEDS to be addressed. They gotta stop just trying to cram more juice into the same or less amount of space, or we'll just see more explosions like this, except the next one will resemble Hiroshima/Nagasaki. - roastedbagel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Go back to Fark
- ArcusOfSV, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Whoops....guess he hit CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-DEL by accident.
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