__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49 \__
> Laptop Blamed For Fire That Caused Crash, Destroyed Truck
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> | David Costello and his daughter were traveling through Hillsborough
> | County in his truck on Monday. Costello said he turned on his Dell laptop
> | computer so his daughter could watch a movie. That's when the computer
> | stated smoking.
> |
> | "It started smoking and, at that time I tossed it as far away from her
> | as I could into the back seat," Costello said.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/07/sco_third_quarter/
Oops. Wrong link.
http://www.wftv.com/news/9798823/detail.html
> Also related:
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> Fires and Laptops and Batteries, Oh My!
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> | The dirty little secret of the PC industry is that most users don't need
> | as much of the processing power and energy usage as they are presently
> | consuming; the Windows / Intel cycle of creating an ever larger operating
> | system which requires ever more processing power to use it is creating
> | this situation. Users just are not aware of alternatives, and
> | alternatives are not presented to them; there's big business in keeping
> | them in the hamster wheel of hardware and software replacement. There's
> | not enough of a sales story for people like Microsoft in saying their
> | latest product will be more efficient in its use of resources, as opposed
> | to having more novelty.
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> http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=97
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> Dell laptop detonates in UK home
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> | A Leicestershire family was this left in shock after their Dell
> | laptop exploded "like fireworks" and set light to their living room
> | furniture, it was reported this week - just before news broke of
> | Sony's decision to appoint a battery safety officer.
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> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/01/dell_laptop_combustion_uk/
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