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Title: Laptop users beware!
Post by: Shadrok on August 16, 2006, 01:06:25 AM
I saw this and was like :blink "what the... laptop batteries exploding?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_hi_te/dell_battery_recall
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on August 16, 2006, 01:09:59 AM
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Stretched page?

-EDIT-
Awwww..... :cry
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: roninfoxtail on August 16, 2006, 01:17:37 AM
How interesting. Wanna know something weirder? There's a fruit drink that can (in high heat) explode off the shelves literally. Don't believe me?

QuoteNapa Naturals, a popular line of fruit drinks that briefly enjoyed popularity in 1984, also fell victim to Loser Hallmark #1. The idea was terrific: 67% real fruit juice with a great taste and no preservatives. The marketing team that introduced Perrier to the United States came on board to promote Napa Natural beverages, millions in investment capital were raised, and the drinks were an instant success when they hit the market in January of 1984. Within six months, Napa Natural Beverage Company broke Perrier's American sales record – and then summer arrived.

Reeder then asked the audience, "When you combine summer heat, a sealed can, fruit juice and no preservatives, what happens? That's right: a wondrous process known as fermentation. All across America, Napa Naturals began exploding off the shelves...literally." The company went bankrupt soon afterwards because grocers were now afraid to stock Napa Naturals on their shelves.

Source: http://www.ntskeptics.org/2002/2002march/march2002.htm
Scroll down tabout 3/4ths of the way or just hit Ctrl+F and look for "Napa Naturals"
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on August 16, 2006, 01:56:00 AM
Jawbreakers can also explode when subjected to extended amounts of time in the sun.  All hail Myth Busters!
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: Supercheese on August 16, 2006, 02:05:06 AM
Quote from: ×HaZ×MaT× on August 16, 2006, 01:56:00 AM
Jawbreakers can also explode when subjected to extended amounts of time in the sun.  All hail Myth Busters!

I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on August 16, 2006, 04:06:01 AM
Cool, can I steal some of yours? :-)
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: Aridas on August 16, 2006, 05:27:21 AM
Thanks sony. (at least, that's who i remember the battery makers being.)
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: Lysander on August 16, 2006, 09:30:34 AM
Hehe, esplody fun. Especially when the company gets sued. :januscat
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: Azlan on August 16, 2006, 09:35:22 AM
https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: Jack McSlay on August 16, 2006, 12:04:29 PM
I remember that happening recently here in Brazil with cell phones. the battery would simply overheat and explode depending on the conditions (which is ironic, because mythbusters busted the "cell phone exploding gas stations" myth, but if a cell phone can explode it would obviously blow up the gas station with it if goes in contact with flammables)

seeing a pc exploding would be rather funny, tho
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: Rowne on August 16, 2006, 01:00:47 PM
And this is why I'm particularly glad and reasonably happy within a moderate margin of realistic belief that I don't personally own or know anyone that happens to own a laptop.

This is worse than back when mobile phones were ancient and radioactively worrying.
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: Supercheese on August 16, 2006, 02:22:36 PM
Your Lappy a splode.

I've a Dell laptop, but it was heavily customized and I don't believe it has the defective battery...
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: LigerJet on August 16, 2006, 05:38:49 PM
This is new?  I got a recall notice earlier this year, but my battery isn't one mentioned in the recall.
Title: Re: Laptop users beware!
Post by: Supercheese on August 16, 2006, 09:04:31 PM
Interesting... my model (Dell Inspiron 9300) 's battery (F5133) is only off by one digit to a bad battery number (F5132)... perhaps my confidence is misplaced.