Alan Cox's Exploding Laptop

Bowie J. Poag writes to mention a page put up to commemorate the explosion of Alan Cox's laptop. From the article: "Alan was on the other side of the room from the laptop. I was elsewhere. He yelled out, I ambled towards the room in my own good time, and then I heard 'Fire! Real fire! Call the fire brigade, now!' and I speeded up a bit. From Alan subsequently, I gather there was an explosion and flying pieces of laptop, and a fireball, and a couple of fires started where (presumably) boiling battery landed, and one fragment smashed an LCD monitor. And then there was smoke and smell (there is still smell) and smoke alarm wailing and firemen and sirens and paramedics (happily unneeded) and police and a man with a notebook asking questions for the fire report.'"

Comments

Re:His own fault...

[Reaperducer]

It's an Apple. You only have to connect the monitor. The keyboard and mouse are wireless. And the monitor port is conveniently located on the side, unlike many crappy Wintel laptops which have all the ports in the back where you can't see them or plug them in easily.

I guess that's why they have docks -- to make up for poor design.

Sounds like the Dell's aren't suited for business use if you have to buy so much extra equipment for all of your employees to make up for design flaws.