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.
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| "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/
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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
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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