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post #21 of 32
6/22/06 at 10:00am


But a laptop should be able to run on a tableclothed table without exploding. If it cant, there is definitely something wrong with the design.
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post #22 of 32
6/22/06 at 10:21am
the cloth on the table is very thin... makes no difference.
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Originally Posted by findme
the dell company has nothing to do with the explosion. hell your car can explode on you when your driving down the road. batteries didnt like em. and we all know who made the batteries... yep u guessed it ... it was the cHinEsE ( aka made in china) for a dell.. they would be happy to replace a laptop if it burns like that. hell if it wasnt on warrenty blame it on the owner for not switchingthe battery on the thing.
I don't think so. Unless proved they were using it in a harmful way (very unlikely), I believe Dell (or Nokia or any other company for that matter) should be responsible for providing a defective product sold as a whole. Most (all?) components in a laptop are really manufactured by 3rd parties, so it would be an (very!) unfair situation to the consumers if a company like Dell buys from them knowing in advance that nobody will be responsible for damages (of course I don't believe that, but...). Not Dell because they don't make the batteries, neither the company because it's in China and nobody will reach them (?).
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post #23 of 32
6/22/06 at 1:37pm
man I can see the scene seconds before hand:

Man1: Awesome I'm nearly getting a quadriple-triple-snipple overclock on my X800
Man2: Uh dude.... that's so not safe...
Men1: Man this is awesome look it's almost steady
Man2: I'm gonna go.... over here.... *steps away*
Man1: Oh awesome it's th-KABOOOOM

End of scene and cameras fade

Thanks you all

Mike Check
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post #24 of 32
6/22/06 at 1:41pm
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Originally Posted by Michael_gaetano
Man1: Awesome I'm nearly getting a quadriple-triple-snipple overclock on my X800
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post #25 of 32
6/22/06 at 5:50pm
Wait, if you look at the pictures, it seems that it WAS pluged in...
And since it was in Japan, maybe the AC to DC converter was a little less than built for Japan's eletrical current, and it could have been that it was overpowered 'causeing the battery to become overheated, or it might have overloaded the transistors, which then blew which helped get the battery to blow, which would explain the multipul explosions.
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post #26 of 32
6/22/06 at 9:40pm
More on this from the Inq:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32583

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Originally Posted by theinquirer.net
The multiple explosions would likely be the individual batteries inside the battery pack igniting as there internal temperatures rose past there flash point. You can almost certainly expect that dell will be doing some battery recalls in the near future.

And the punchline from the Inq:
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Originally Posted by theinquirer.net
When you buy the cheapest sometmes thats exactly what you get.
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post #27 of 32
6/23/06 at 3:07am
Does anybody know what kind of Dell?
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post #28 of 32
6/23/06 at 5:01am
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Originally Posted by Donovan323
Dude, glad I didn't get a dell.

Quoted for truth.
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post #29 of 32
6/23/06 at 11:47am
What ever happened to that Freak4Dell dood? Figured with a post like this.. he would've been all over here.
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post #30 of 32
7/4/06 at 7:56pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by msjaneoly
Does anybody know what kind of Dell?
It seems to be a Dell Inspiron 1150, and it seems like the explotion wasn't caused by the battery after all:
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread161376.html
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post #31 of 32
7/5/06 at 1:54am
not to add to the corny jokes, but that's not a laptop - it's a keep-this-100-feet-away-from-yourself-top
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post #32 of 32
7/5/06 at 2:26am
Well it seems to me in the first picture that if the thing exploded multiple times then either the guy behind was stupid enough to get that close to it when it was still exploding (not likley) or that was when it had first exploded. And i find it hard to beleive that someone got a camera out that fast to take a picture of it. It just looks kind of planed to me.

That is just my opinion.
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