another laptop blows up, this time a macbook

[mattbiernat]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... don-office

[Marin85]

And I thought that "laptop battery can explode" is just an improper use of the term... I´m not sure what will happen if my hands are on the keyboard and that thing explodes beneath the laptop...

[mattbiernat]

i believe before explosion the battery should feel very hot and some smoke should be coming out and so you have enough time to put away the laptop

[hausman]

Hopefully you'll have enough time to get a camera so you can share with us how your notebook went up in flames

[Marin85]

Hopefully you'll have enough time to get a camera so you can share with us how your notebook went up in flames

Will? In other words you want or you are sure that will happen to MY ThinkPad... Why are you so cruel?

[craigmontHunter]

Fun. I had a laptop (thankfully not the battery) start sparking, smoke and everything a couple of times. Actually the same laptop. The toshiba in the signature, which I am using right now, since the T41 was just sent to get it's gpu fixed (I hope)

[TheRedFox]

Man, I have a friend who says "mac hardware lasts forever" (not having experienced this himself, he just sat next to a pompous mac fanboy for a long time, who constantly blamed hardware issues on microsoft and that sort of thing. not that I think Apple is bad or anything, it's just not as good as some people think it is, and I dislike pompous fanboys of any sort.)

my laptop turned off once and smoke came out of the powersource. that was a scary day. luckily it seems to be mostly fine, now. I think it just tried to draw more power than it could all at once. my battery was out at the time.