dont buy dell....

[cobalt6700]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32550

very intresting :lol:

[AWACS]

jikes... another good reason to stay with desktops you've built yourself

[RazorBack]

:D Just read that... pretty scary!

"uhh dad.. your laptop is supposed to get this warm, yeah??"

:|

[Reitau]

'Dont buy dell' - but we all knew that.

:)

[Darv]

Thats pretty damn scary. It must have been a special case or something though, fan stopped working or the intake was covered.

It would have made an awful mess had it been on someones lap :h34r:

[jaguarking11]

The battery pack malfunctioned. Im 99% shure it did. Modern battery cells are known to explode once damaged or wet.

Hapened a fiew years back with nokia cell phones. Imagine an explosion next to your face.

In any case the batteries are to blame.

[jofultner]

Dells also have bios passwords made into them that only registered original owner can get from dell support if lost.Jo

[Da_Rude_Baboon]

"For the record, this is a Dell machine," notes Guilhem. "It is only a matter of time until such an incident breaks out on a plane," he suggests.

Good god. :duh: Next the inquirer will be saying Al Quaeda are all buying dells.

[Greeny]

Now I was discussing this with my colleague yesterday, the thought occurs to both of us that perhaps their isn't really that much combustable material to produce that sort of explosion in the average laptop.

Perhaps some flammable liquid (someones cocktail or whatever) may have managed to get in their or something? What do you boys think?

Either that or I suppose someone might've picked up Osama's laptop case instead of their own... :P

[fillip]

I'm a little surprised at the 'explosion' bit too mate. I mean, silicon tends to just burn out rather than go boom, and even if the capacitors on the board all went simultaneously I can't see it causing that much havok, but who knows. First I've ever seen a lappie go that way for sure.

[furious trout]

My inital reaction was that someone had spilled their drink on it...i dunno talk about scaremongering :shrug:

[Pug]

Rang some alarm bells for me too.
Pinch of salt with that one until it's corroborated, methinks. :nods:

[Fibbles]

My inital reaction was that someone had spilled their drink on it...i dunno talk about scaremongering :shrug:

A friend of mine spilled his drink (beer - he was super drunk) on his Dell laptop and it didn't blow up or catch fire. It just stopped working :huh:

[CandyKid]

You can actually get a battery to blow up, especially powerful Li batteries, but they don't usually explode as much as they just pop and sputter a bit and piss out some nasty juices...

I'm in the 'pinch-of-salt' group here. There's something fishy going on.

PLUR
CK

[POE_UK]

The dell monitors are ok but the pc's suck, the pc's are put together with factory throw-outs

[Psykotik]

That sounds like the kind of story the Inquirer would write....oh...hang on :wiz:

[GodsUnicorn]

Would it explode if a drink were spilt on it when it was plugged into the mains ?

[POE_UK]

probably not would just trip the electric meter off if water hit the psu or a fuse would blow

[InigoMontoya27]

Depends on whether the laptop was built by Bat Boy or Satan's Child, or whatever story they're running on the front page this month. Come on, it's the Enquirer, not the newspaper.