Dell: notebook explosion in Japan
Developers of latest hi-tech notebooks are often coming around the thin border of excellent piece of hardware or just a dangerous tool for geeks. I’m pretty sure that many visitors of Releaselog own their very new and very powerfull notebooks/laptops and they can probably also confirm how’s the heat becoming a serious problem. As I come across to some new notebooks from time to time, I can clearly watch the current trend (or better to say a nasty problem) of this new hardware: it’s getting too hot! The lossy energy produced by still better CPUs and still higher amount of memory is getting little out of hand sometimes.
I was pretty surprised by some (not only) Acer notebooks, because their touchbad became simply too hot to even touch it after few minutes of work. The coolers, often build in at the bottom or at the back of notebook are producing so hot air that you can hardly place your lovely friend into your lap. The noise produced by these fans is sometimes also pretty annoying and disturbing. And it may get even a bit worse: one Dell notebook exploded at some tech conference in Japan, reported by The Inqueror’s reader. The battery became probably too hot and exploded resulting in 5 minutes fire and dangerous explosions in the surroundings. It was only a mater of luck there wasn’t anybody nearby – it could injure him seriously. You can check out two pictures, although the exact model of this laptop isn’t known. A bit of safety by these manufacturers would be really fine…
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Read about this a few days ago on Shortnews I think it was. All I can say is, what if this happened on an airplane? Where laptops are the norm. Very dangerous.. n’ scary.
Flaming Hot nuts.
i have a dell 3800 and i can confirm my laptop gets up to 120 degrees when left sitting on a surface. I’m glad this news have been annouce about the new laptops, its the batteries. Matter a fact dell recalled certain models just because of the heat from the batteries. I figured if i take the battery out and use the adaptor it would stop getting so hot, nope, i guess the heat is coming from the fan or whatever too, all i know something inside the laptop really putting off alot of heat. I have a new hp laptop now for work use and there is some heat but it’s more just warmth then being hot like the dell one. Also its super quiet. I can’t even hear anything unless i place my ear on it.
We just had a Latitude D600 start on fire yesterday. Suprisingly the hard drive is working. the entire building smelled like shit