From the Dark Side--Flaming Dells

1999–2004May 7, 2001Dana BaggettDark Side
According to this TechWeb article, the Panasonic LiIon battery in Dell Inspirion laptops get so hot that the battery catches fire. Where have we heard this before? Let's see if the press tears Dell to shreds over its flaming laptops like they did Apple over the PowerBook 5300 when it had a similar problem with its then cutting edge LiIon battery. [Dana Baggett]

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