IBM Thinkpad has entered the list of exploding laptops.  Yesterday, a story about Alan’s exploding IBM Thinkpad 600 appeared with a link to a list of exploding laptops.

    It should be noted that I was not able to find Apple’s Laptop on the list.  I was sent two separate submissions on the topic of exploding laptops, but these were determined to be irrelevant.  

    The first was an exploding laptop epidemic with a photo of a burn hole in the left side of a new MacBook Pro.  It was later learned that this was a hoax based on a partial truth about another story. Apparently, the MacBook owner was in a machine shop that had shaven metal strips on floor upon which he dragged the MagSafe plug (Magnetic plug that ironically, protects the MacBook Pro from being accidently hurled to the floor).  The shaven metal bits attracted to the MagSafe end which was then attached to MacBook resulting in the not-so-accidental exploding accident.  

    The other story appeared to photoshopped.  Come to think of it, the first story looked photoshopped.  In any case, there wasn’t any epidemic and the stories weren’t accurate.  

    It appears that these stories rose out of Apple’s good will gesture to voluntarily recall the batteries on a few specific laptops, none of which were the new MacBooks nor MacBook Pros.  They did this because of a exploding Dell laptop that use SONY batteries.  Since a few, not all, of their older model iBook and PowerBook laptops had used SONY batteries. At a time when there was no reported incidents of any Apple laptops, new or old, that have exploded.

    

Read the official story of Alan’s exploding laptop at:

 

Check the list of exploding laptops at: