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- fatmike, on 10/12/2007, -6/+64damn, it let me submit mine, but you beat me by 12 seconds or so..
i will, however, digg yours and comment a link on mine to your digg... - nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -6/+39you're not on an airplane. You're on the internet. They're different.
- aaaz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+39@ fatmike
Thanx bro, ..... - JerodSlay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I love the end of the article. It says that on-lookers were mumbling that too many viruses caused it. lol.
- fatmike, on 10/12/2007, -8/+29no prob...
you're quick! i have to admit i am addicted to the rush of reading something cool and submitting it to digg... it's really fun. - hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23@cam18
Haven't you ever heard of a pipe bomb? :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_bomb - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19This is the kind of stuff where in 10 years, 2006 will be known as the year of exploding laptops. Maybe even a Lifetime movie will be made.
- wibblewibble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Heat. The polymer becomes more of a liquid at high temperatures and bits move about and then they suddenly come into contact with too thin a wall inside the battery cells and boom. Basically they tried to cheap out on the production cost by reducing material usage inside the cells and then now its comming back to bite them in the arse as they went too far and its not safe enough under heavy usage and higher temperatures. They blame battery defects but most likely its because of the production companies trying to reduce costs to increase profits.
Its just like the motherboards with crappy capacitors, they tried to use cheaper caps and then they failed and it came back and haunted them :) - cam18, on 10/12/2007, -10/+27@nreynolds
Exactly. You can't put bombs in the tubes... - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15OMG Bonzi Buddy! Run, it's gonna blow!
- TGDuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15What is up with all these laptops exploding all of a sudden?
- roguescout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Endgadget needs to hire a copy editor.
Also:
+Digg to fatmike for being a gentleman.
+Digg to aaaz for being courteous.
(stares around at the rest of us Diggers) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Solar panels on an iPod ... how much sunlight do you get in your pocket?
- cooltom2006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I remember once in England somone joked about a bomb in Manchester airport and got arrested, fined and sent to jail!
- gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Wow that's amazing, lucky thing the laptop wasn't stuck in the luggage hold of an airplane at 35,000ft.
p.s.: those "bomb" signs have been in airports for as long as I can remember. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13... on your whatnow? Oh ... I don't use my nano as a fashion accessory, I just listen to music on it ...
- Schug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12People are so stupid when it comes to computers and they all think it's a good thing that they aren't a geek. Who's gonna be laughing in 20 years when computers take over the world? ME, that's who!
- Troopy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14@Urusai:
Thats the most ***** comment i've heard in some time. Well done.
What have ASBOs got to do with our Queen?.. - jonathanex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Laptops on a plane?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Is anyone else suspicious about the number of laptops that all mysteriously waited until the last month or so before they started blowing up?
Maybe that MacBook loser's not the only one handy with Zippo fluid? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10so if you see your friend named Jack at an airport you cant shout Hi Jack???
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9This guy is lucky he didn't get shot by Airport security
- daines88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6These 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 ***** up big on this one.
- marosnax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5He is the guy that will ruin bringing a laptop on a plane for the rest of us
- floppyparty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7we can all laugh, but this is the reason we all have jobs in IT lol.
- exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4well... it's just one, it could have been a 3rd party battery or modded, and Thinkpads actually cut power when batteries get hot.
Sidenote: I have 2 thinkpads. - sfty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So, which Laptops actually do not explode? Apple, Dell, Lenovo are out.. :/
- wibblewibble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It wasnt a bad batch, it was them trying to cheap on the materials to decrease production costs and increase profits. Thats them trying to squirm out of it.
- oepapel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Thinkpads actually cut power when batteries get hot."
Once things start going bad, cutting the power will do NOTHING. It's a chemical explosion inside the battery. The laptop can be completely off and the battery removed from the laptop and it would still explode!
And I believe that HP is still free and clear of exploding laptops. Go HP!!!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3On occassion I've left my Acer on and put it in my backpack and wandered around with it because I wanted to go walkies and didn't want to stop downloading.
All I get is a face full of hot air when I open my bag. :( - monkeybutler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But 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.
- sfty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Maybe that *one* factory in China has some issues this year. :S
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Watch the news spread..
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=lax+laptop&btnG=Search+News
Engadget is apparently the first to report on it (2 hours ago).. it's going to be a firestorm within a few hours.. - Olle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, wow. That's a scary thought.
I've been thinking that they were going to ban laptops from carry on bags, but it is even worse if it is in the luggage hold because then nobody can fight the fire very easily. - dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's all go for HP/Compaq right now... (Acer does not count)
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's not necessary to remove a charged battery when using AC on many laptops, which stop charging the battery once they're full.
- gyrfalcon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Besides being fake... who cares?
- smartydebater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Next Generation bomb, laptops?
Airplanes are going to have to start banning laptops for fire risk! - Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2get an Hp laptop, they don't explode ;)
- sriracha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have a T42 and it looks similar.
I do hope there's a recall. My battery has lost its mojo. - LuCiFer6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Dude what are you talking about, no danger to an airline? Any fire on a airline is dangerous, it's one of the main reasons why the banned smoking from airlines.
- LuCiFer6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Has anyone other than the tech sites confirm this story? Because I live in L.A. and I have yet to hear anything about it on the news here.
- KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yet. >:)
- MerlynXLII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@celeronxl
That is a Thinkpad T-43 variety (possibly T-43p, which is the exact model I own). At the time the Thinkpad T-43 came out Lenovo was in full control. They just maintain the IBM name on the Thinkpad line as par their agreement when Lenovo purchased that section of IBM. - celeronxl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@MerlynXLII:
"...passersby stared aghast or fled crying terrorist, the ThinkPad (which was quoted to be an IBM, not a Lenovo)"
~the article - emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like a T4x to me as well, I have a T43p.
- raccettura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My Thinkpad has a Sayno..
I know some batterys are made by Panasonic and some by Sony... no recalls that I'm aware of yet.
That looks like a Thinkpad T4x, the current corporate workhorse... if there's a recall, this is big for business travelers. - Kev585, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hp'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.
- Wyzard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fires consume oxygen, and in a confined space full of people who need to breathe, that's a bad thing.
- Wyzard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where do you find who made the battery? The battery in my Z60m doesn't seem to say who made it, only that it was "Manufactured for Lenovo" and "Made in China".
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