Glennalicious: Flaming laptop of death

September 26, 2006

Flaming laptop of death

This didn't happen to me, thank zod. I was just suitably impressed it happened to someone else. I received my brand new battery via special delivery today. I followed the petulant directions from Apple, and I was a bit alarmed by the vague threat that if the battery wasn't defective that they might charge me over a $100 bucks.

My old battery only had about 90 minutes for a charge. This new one is predicting 3 hours. That would just be crazy!

Posted by G at September 26, 2006 09:39 PM

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i didn't read the fine print so i missed the vague threat....still haven't sent my old one back yet though. my old battery would charge to 100% but the new one seems to top out at 97% (grrr....).
while i think the whole exploding battery thing is being overplayed in the press i do keep a pack of marshmallows handy so that if my laptop does go up in flames at least i can have some fun making smores.

Posted by: brian nesbitt at September 27, 2006 08:37 AM

Lucky duck.

Posted by: Tom at September 27, 2006 08:44 AM

Let them try to get that $100 from your cold dead hands!

Posted by: Mr. HK at September 28, 2006 05:22 PM