Dell battery explodes at Yahoo HQ, hundreds evacuate

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mordantmonkey

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Originally posted by: BrownTown
Lol, I'm writting on the exact same type of laptop as the one in the picture right now. Everyone had to get this laptop in the engineering school and I also know many people with recalled batteries, but I still believe the chances of my battery blowing up are so low its not worth the effort to fill out the stupid form and get a new one.

enjoy your fingers now.
 

GalvanizedYankee

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Hey! It's a free for all market and I want my slave labor built goods :p

Apple has a Sony battery recall also. There are metalic bits/contaminates in the batteries that cause internal shorts.


...Galvanized
 

theeedude

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What happens if you leave your computer plugged in at home, and then it explodes? Could you come home to see it all burned down to the ground? That would suck big time.
 

dawheat

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Best quote of the day:

Samuel L. Jackson should make a movie called ?Dells on a plane.? It would be totally scary. Those things would be blowing up left and right. It would be awesome when he says ?I?m sick and tired of these motherf****** dells on this motherf****** plane.?
 

sandorski

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Originally posted by: dawheat
Best quote of the day:

Samuel L. Jackson should make a movie called ?Dells on a plane.? It would be totally scary. Those things would be blowing up left and right. It would be awesome when he says ?I?m sick and tired of these motherf****** dells on this motherf****** plane.?

hehe, beat me to it. ;)
 

ISAslot

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Originally posted by: dawheat
Best quote of the day:

Samuel L. Jackson should make a movie called ?Dells on a plane.? It would be totally scary. Those things would be blowing up left and right. It would be awesome when he says ?I?m sick and tired of these motherf****** dells on this motherf****** plane.?

Then he violates the Dellf.
 

Itchrelief

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Originally posted by: MS Dawn
All kidding aside, what is going to happen when this happens on a plane?

Sir, we are going to have to ask you to remove the computers from your feet.