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gatt wrote:
Gig 601Xl Builder wrote:
Andrew Sarangan wrote:


And yet this happens and causes MASSIVE recalls.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/a...ery-214322.php


Ford Pintos allegedly exploded, too, but, that didn't kill Ford, let
alone the automobile.

No, but it certainly killed off the Pinto.



About your video: "This isn't a completely legitimate laptop battery
explosion—the folks at PC Pitstop forced a lithium-ion battery into an
unstable state" Didn't NBC or somebody ignite a Ford pickup with a
model rocket engine one time to demonstrate how explosive they are?

The journalistic problem with NBC's action was that they led the
audience to believe that the truck exploded without the addition of the
rocket engine. And yet that didn't change the fact that the saddle bag
tanks were a hazard and had caused fires.



I work in the telecom/internet industry and we have hundreds of laptops
and talk to hundreds of people in the industry with laptops, and I've
never heard of any of them having laptop batteries explode on them.


A simple Google search or better yet a search of the Consumer Product
Safety Commission's website shows that the igniting batteries were real.
Since you mentioned the Pinto. I knew several people that had those as
well and none of them blew-up. That doesn't change the fact that several
did.

Pretty cool video, though, although I have a pound of thermite that says
I can do a better job destroying a laptop...


That would be what NBC would have done. What PC Pitstop did was with
nothing but what came with the laptop.