Dell laptop burned down a house

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:43 am

http://consumerist.com/consumer/dell/de ... 235167.php

Poor fella.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:40 pm

Wow.. one laptop can cause a really bad fire..

just another reason to stay away from dell

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:31 pm

adventure_of_link wrote:just another reason to stay away from sony

fixed. Sony's the one who made the battery that caused the explosion.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:18 pm

oh, oops

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:26 pm

It's a Sony, hit the deck!

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:34 pm

That sucks. I can't imagine how I would feel coming home to find my entire home burned to the ground like that losing everything. Something tells me I'd hit a serious depression for awhile and need some help to get out of it.

I wonder what the 'malfunction' is. Does anybody know? How/Why are these batteries bursting into flames? Or are they just heating up to the point they can catch some material touching them on fire?

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:05 pm

Nightcrawler wrote:That sucks. I can't imagine how I would feel coming home to find my entire home burned to the ground like that losing everything. Something tells me I'd hit a serious depression for awhile and need some help to get out of it.

I wonder what the 'malfunction' is. Does anybody know? How/Why are these batteries bursting into flames? Or are they just heating up to the point they can catch some material touching them on fire?

I think its quite literally a fiery explosion. I had a video link a while ago that showed what happened to a laptop with an exploding battery. They set their off on purpose though by overriding several of the failsafes that the batteries had.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:09 am

how he didn't know about the recall is beyond me.

or it was a freak accident. either way, it sucks. i can't imagine losing everything to fire

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:32 am

When the recent
problems began with laptop batteries I read about it at
consumerist.com. I own two Dell laptops -- one for my wife and one
for myself -- so I immediately checked out the model numbers and
batteries against dells website designed for the purpose.

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:06 am

Is Sony obligated there?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:02 am

sweener2001 wrote: or it was a freak accident.

wow

thanks for trying

Post by **pagefault** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:03 pm

For the record, Dell makes awesome laptops, they actually work in linux.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:43 pm

Dell makes decent laptops these days, not as great as they used to be. Thinkpad on the otherhand is still awesome even with Lenovo, and my T60 works great with linux.