iBook ON FIRE

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The iBook said it had enough of the childs abuse and committed suicide.

I doubt that an iBooks catching on fire is common, maybe it was a 1 in a million thing?
 
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i like how they took it outside and took pictures instead of putting the fire out
 

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Why? If you put the fire out its still useless.
 
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could have salvaged something, an airport card? the screen? the powerbutton? some toxic plastic? a speaker or TWO! besides, its dangerous to leave burning laptops around. someone COULD get hurt.
 

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also the smoke from the plastic is toxic.
 
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chances are very good that if they were able to put it out quickly with only cosmetic damages, like with fanning a shirt or a towel on it they could have saved a large portion of the computer

instead they decided to grab their camera and will probably attempt to sue
-chris
 
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My view is that anything that is powered by electricity and can get hot has a one in a million chance of catching fire. It happens, just bad luck.
 
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When I saw the whole battery recall thing I wondered for a minute what would happen if I ignored the recall. Fortunately I didn't, This is what would have happened.
 
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esp if you left it on your carpet like you are not supposed to do in the first place, i believe it says something like that somewhere in your manual.

"um, i left my computer between the sheets when i was charging it over night when i was not home, it lit on fire can i get a new one????" NO! it is going to get hot on surfaces that will retain the heat and most likely start some sort of fire
 
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If they had put it out straight away, they probably would have been able to salvage the data on the harddrive at least...
 
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I don't see why they never tried to save the HD. Must have had nothing worth keeping on it!
 
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That thing had some serious flames shooting out of it. I did find it funny that they watched it burn as my first instinct would have been to put the fire out. Maybe dad is an ambulance chaser by day.
 
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While the story being aired is about the iBook, they don't specificly point on Apple in any way past that. Clear fact is laptops are getting pretty powerful and with power comes higher temps, atleast with computers. Laptops just don't have good cooling and things like this happen.


Next thing you know colleges will be banning laptops because they're a fire hazard.


P.S.- That's a joke, but something to think about.
 

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