News Apple PowerBook goes up in flames in London office

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/02/27/apple-powerbook-catches-fire-in-london/1

Fire extinguishers had to be used to deal with an Apple PowerBook G4 after it caught fire in a London office, resulting in 6ft flames and sparks

 

I love stories like this. No matter how good technology is becoming it can still just go up in flames whenever it feels like it, and that's strangely reassuring

 

I'm just glad it wasn't on someones lap at the time!

 

""The problem was put down to issues with some of Sony’s Lithium-Ion batteries""

I love it when large companies get a good kick in the nuts.... just because your big doesn't mean your products are... )

 

I prefer Lithium batteries to old lead-acid batteries, as anybody who has had an old car battery explode hot acid in their direction will attest. Maybe, Apple could use this as a marketing tool for the female & gay community, buy a Mac, get a visit from a hunky fireman!

 

iFlames?

 

that'd be preaching to the choir!

Oh no he didn't!

 

Very funny

 

This isn't quite as newsworthy as it first seems when you consider that there's a good chance they didn't send the laptop/battery back during the recall.

If a company announces a recall due to exploding batteries, you don't send yours back and it later explodes in a technological inferno, then really, whose lack of prudence was it?
Sure, it'd be nice if explosive, faulty batteries had never gotten into the market, but if someone didn't bother with the recall then they were just playing with fire. Pun regretfully intended.

On the other hand, explosions are always at least somewhat newsworthy.

 

Even better,it's an Apple!

 

iCrash, iBurn

iSmoke

 

LMBO! Nice one

 

fyi there is no way as far as i know extinguish a lithium battery fire, lithium batteries flame when the lithium inside contacts the air, only way to stop the flames is to cut air supply off. Burn baby burn.

 

Class D fire extinguishers are required in every room a Mac user is present

 

No the fire is expected. If you run iCamp, the laptop does a camp fire for you to tell stories, sing, and eat marshmallow, with your friends or family. iCamp is a feature in MacOX X.

When you use Mac, you have to forget everything about Windows and Linux. It's totally different. The Mac can do the impossible.

 

Steve Jobs didn't charge for Icamp? WTF? He must be losing it. Especially the 6ft tall Icamp; that's got to be $329.99 over the standard Icamp.

 

I never thought I'd post this in something relating to Apple but...

I love this thread


But I am glad that nobody was hurt in the fire

 

LIMBO?

also, really not that funny.

I'm glad mac are getting some bad press though.

 

Yes, it is really that funny.

Maybe it should have been in the following order though;

iSmoke, iCrash, iBurn

 

iLOLed.

Still, technically the egg's on Sony for the fault more than Apple, surely? Which, imo, is even more satisfying. That, and the fellow that didn't go in for the replacement.

Dell and Apple and a few others all had trouble, Sony were the common factor yet so often seem to get away with a footnote at the end.