Jun 21 2006Dell computer explodes during conference

If you happen to own a Dell laptop try to make sure it doesn't explode, because that's exactly what happened at a conference in Japan. No explanation has been given yet, just some witnesses who say the thing suddenly burst into flames and produced "several more explosions for more than five minutes."
This exact same thing happened to me and the laptop I built using firecrackers and lighter fluid. And I was so convinced booting up with a match would've worked.
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1. Dell optiplex - April 19, 2009 9:46 AM
"why can't Dell design its consumer laptops that accept the capability of "snap-on" color lid covers?"
Dell already tried this years ago, and it never worked out for them.
If you have to design a laptop with snap-on customization kit, designer's latitude for integrating the color into the design becomes severely restrictive, because now the kit are constraints by a one big factor: They need to be easily removable by even monkeys and baboons, which means no complex shapes. This also means that you will have a part on your laptop that is purely decorative, which in conjunction with user-serviceable engineering, will add bulk. (and unnecessary seams)
I'm sure there are many other good reasons.
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10. Cheap Computers - April 26, 2010 9:06 AM
This would have happened due to the over heating or might be possible that the power consumption has gone high.
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12. cheap computers - May 5, 2010 2:45 PM
They need to be easily removable by even monkeys and baboons, which means no complex shapes. This also means that you will have a part on your laptop that is purely decorative, which in conjunction with user-serviceable engineering, will add bulk.
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This also means that you will have a part on your laptop that is purely decorative, which in conjunction with user-serviceable engineering, will add bulk.
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16. cheap computers - June 8, 2010 12:36 PM
This means that when the lid is closed, you can see a bit of the base. And when you open the lid to use the laptop, the screen no longer rests behind the notebook. Instead the hinge rests on top of the netbook base.
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This translates over to a really bad battery life and other fails for the computer. What you need to do is get the right kind of Dell computers for yourself. These are usually a little bit more expensive, but they are worth the money.
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This must have been the horrible experience for the company and people present at the conference that how such thing could have happened. It shows that what kind of products company is making and i think it will badly affect company's reputation.
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