Re: Exploding laptop?

I've had a few I wished would explode.......

On 6/21/06, Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oh Great.  Just what we need.  Something else to get the knuckle draggers
at the TSA excited about...  OK, so at least it was identified in the
article as a Dell...which we don't use... :)

It could be worse case scenerio of an overcharged battery...I would be
curious if the unit was plugged in when this happened.  Which means it is
a
scenerio that wouldn't happen in flight...as it was triggered by a 120vac
connection catalyst.

Don in DC

At 11:54 AM 6/21/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32550
>
>To be honest, I have my doubts that a laptop has enough energy to
>explode that dramatically.
>
>david
>
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