I'll take my laptop medium rare, please!

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#1 Post by **gator** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:09 pm

http://www.luckywhitegirl.com/2005/11/m ... e_ele.html

Storing a laptop in an oven? Well, now I have heard (almost) everything!

Purcy · #2 Post by **Purcy** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:48 pm

Wow, that's an incredible story. But one of the responses to her story did not give me any comfort:

"It's cool that your laptop still works. Like pretty everyone else said, though, don't trust it to keep working.

I've never put one in the oven; but, I was typing on my old IBM Thinkpad a few years ago when a flame shot out the back and the keyboard started to catch fire. Melted a place-mat and bubbled up the kitchen table pretty good, too."

A FLAME shot out the back!! what could cause that (as I power off with suspicion of my old IBM Thinkpad)

#3 Post by **rkawakami** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:54 pm

That must have been one of those "turbo-charged" models

. A build up of fuel-rich exhaust gases can ignite like a flamethrower.

Purcy · #4 Post by **Purcy** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:06 pm

LOL, but really, can they catch on fire inside?

#5 Post by **rkawakami** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:27 pm

Depending on when the incident happened and the system involved, it could be related to the recent battery recall. There were several reports of Sony batteries short-circuiting and causing the laptops to go up in flames. Here's one of them:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=31123

General recall threads:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=31151
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=31013

#6 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:30 pm

This person isn't the only one to store a laptop in the oven.

http://www.wfu.edu/~jld/bakedthinkpad.html

Because people forget stuff all the time, the oven is really not that great of a place for a laptop.

I'll take my laptop medium rare, please!

I'll take my laptop medium rare, please!

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