Our MacBook just caught on fire

Okay, has anyone ever heard or seen this before??? My wife and I have a MacBook we purchased back in June 2007. Tonight when she was working on some projects, the computer just shut down. She mentioned to me that the screen went black and she hit the power button a couple of times and nothing. I took the MacBook downstairs and plugged it in thinking the battery was low. When the cord was plugged in, the light was green. I then pushed the power button and saw a orange / yellow flame come out of the "E" key. It flashed for a second and then was gone, followed by smoke pouring out of the "E" key and some of the surrounding keys. I have an appointment with the Genius Bar tomorrow. Has anyone hear about this before or has seen this? Are we talking the battery or a processor? My thinking would be the processor...

Alabama Smith

Sounds like some kind of short in the logic board. Due to the nature of the problem, I wouldn't be surprised if it was sent back to Apple for an engineering assessment. That's a pretty serious problem. Personally, I would want a complete replacement.

cwa107 put it just how I would plan on what the Genius Bar will say to you.

Well there has always been known issues with the Magnasafe power adaptors as well.

I haven't seen any issues with my Macbook OR Macbook Pro to date however.

*Magsafe

MagNAsafe...lol

I wonder if Apple will change anything about them with the next Macbook update?

tjbackstage said:

*Magsafe

MagNAsafe...lol

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Ok ok....I admit.....I just got home from the bar with the guy's.....a few too many...

You knew what I meant!

328iGuy said:

Ok ok....I admit.....I just got home from the bar with the guy's.....a few too many...

You knew what I meant!

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Ah to be at the bar - I am stuck at my desk at 4:30am doing a report

idsamdg said:

Ah to be at the bar - I am stuck at my desk at 4:30am doing a report

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Thats no fun. A report, I remember the days.

I am stuck now on my main floor watching Sportscenter in between playing PS3 well my wife and kids sleep. HA!

328iGuy said:

Thats no fun. A report, I remember the days.

I am stuck now on my main floor watching Sportscenter in between playing PS3 well my wife and kids sleep. HA!

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Wanna do my report?

idsamdg said:

Wanna do my report?

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ummmmm.......Ill pass on that one!

328iGuy said:

ummmmm.......Ill pass on that one!

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Aww mannnnnnnnnnnn - that sucks

idsamdg said:

Aww mannnnnnnnnnnn - that sucks

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I have done my time.....now I will sit here on my MBP...watching Sportscenter, drinking MORE beer.....and will pay for it in the morning, well your just a bit "tired" I will be "hungover".

ahhhhhhh

328iGuy said:

I have done my time.....now I will sit here on my MBP...watching Sportscenter, drinking MORE beer.....and will pay for it in the morning, well your just a bit "tired" I will be "hungover".

ahhhhhhh

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Yeah but I got clients tomorrow from 8am till 5pm

idsamdg said:

Yeah but I got clients tomorrow from 8am till 5pm

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I am a consultant myself, and work on a client site daily. No difference .

I can't complain though, good old SAP pays for my addictions to MAC....

I'm sorry... this sounds terrible. But it still cracked me right up. Please update about what the mac geniuses have to say or have said - I'm way too intrigued.

328iGuy said:

Well there has always been known issues with the Magnasafe power adaptors as well.

I haven't seen any issues with my Macbook OR Macbook Pro to date however.

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Every issue I've seen with the magsafe adapter has been related to debris being allowed to accumulate around the port and/or connector, or a frayed cable. Either way, in this case, the hot zone was under the keyboard. So, that would indicate a short in the systemboard itself.