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Dell's Exploding Laptop Autopsy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the determining-the-cause-of-aaaughh dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dell has gone to the Consumer Product Safety Commission looking for help determining the cause of death for its exploding laptop. Dell has been blaming the lithium ion battery; the commission seems to have had a few problems with those batteries in the past."

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  1. Bulletproof Laptop by SPQR_Julian · · Score: 5, Informative

    It took me some creative digging, but I found what you were talkingabout. I remember seeing the article in Popular Mechanics a couple years back when it first came out. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/compute rs/1279251.html