Dell laptop explode like fireworks in UK home.

[froggyboy604]

the Allen family of Eskdale Road, Hinckley saw their dell explode on 25th of July.

"Dell Latitude C600, was left alone in the family home to load a game. When the Allens came in to see how it was doing, the machine blew up."

"There are six batteries inside a compartment, and they were shooting out like fireworks, like rockets," Shaun Allen, 39, told the paper. "They even bounced off the ceiling, they went up that high."

The exploding batteries set fire to the sofa and the carpet, the paper reports.

Dell told the paper it believes the battery that burned was not a dell battery, but a generic brand battery. Dell said it would give the Allen's a new machine as a gesture of goodwill.

S: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/01 ... ustion_uk/

Scary, but i guest they were fortunate that they wasnt siting next to the laptop when it was shooting out batteries while loading a game . I wonder what they do with the new laptop dell gave them.

[babydorkee]

haha wow. t heres been a lot of defects on dells. they are like exploding everywhere