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To: dfwgator; FormerACLUmember

If it is too early to draw conclusions how can it not be related to battery recall?? My ** below.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004060116

Dell: Exploding Laptop Incident Investigated

June 28, 2006 9:25 p.m. EST

Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Staff Writer
New York, NY (AHN) - Dell Inc. on Tuesday said that the company was investigating the incident of exploding of a Dell laptop computer....

"We have **captured** the notebook and have begun investigating the event," Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden said, confirming the computer was made by Dell but declining to specify the model. ...

Camden said it was **too early to draw any conclusions** and **added that it did not appear that the incident had anything to do with the battery issues related to the recall.** "From here it's going to be a very methodical and meticulous process to figure out what happened," Camden said.


15 posted on 07/10/2006 9:30:20 AM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: bwteim
Gaston, our astonished reader reports: "The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes".

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Camden said it was **too early to draw any conclusions** and **added that it did not appear that the incident had anything to do with the battery issues related to the recall.** "From here it's going to be a very methodical and meticulous process to figure out what happened," Camden said.

Uh-oh. It sounds like someone decided to save some bucks by not including a voltage-limiter on their Lithium-Ion batteries...

24 posted on 07/10/2006 9:34:18 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (Karen Ryan reporting...)
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