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06-24-06, 02:52 PM
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Ace of the Deep
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Dude, you're getting a DELL!
Dell laptop explodes at Japanese Conference
 What if you get Dell shrapnel in you arms/eyes/ears/nose/throat? What kind of support comes with that? |
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06-24-06, 04:05 PM
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Sea Lord
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A Dell trying to cope with all the imperfections in the stock DW game.
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06-24-06, 04:13 PM
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Born to Run Silent
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06-24-06, 05:40 PM
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Stowaway
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06-24-06, 07:55 PM
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The Old Man
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This is why I wonder why companies like eMachines have bad reputations...when was the last time an eMachine exploded?
::crickets chirp:: Uh-huh...that's what I thought.
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06-24-06, 08:08 PM
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Ace of the Deep
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06-25-06, 05:08 AM
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Navy Seal
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I have an eMachines and it runs great. No crashes, nothing. Fast enough...all I need really is to put in more RAM and a faster video card.
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06-25-06, 07:49 AM
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Lucky Jack
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06-25-06, 08:01 AM
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Lucky Jack
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So that's what North Korea's been making...
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06-25-06, 08:54 AM
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Über Mom
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The Dell from Hell!
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06-25-06, 09:07 AM
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Samurai Navy
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The payload of that missile...
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06-25-06, 12:42 PM
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Engineer
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Terrorists have taken over your Dell
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06-26-06, 01:22 AM
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Fleet Admiral
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I knew the intel chips ran hot, but this is crazy. The new intel processor "the chernobyl
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06-26-06, 11:20 AM
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Ace of the Deep
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Realistically speaking, this was probably the LiON battery.
Almost no one uses polymer LiON's, so this was the usual electrolytic battery. They've got a circuit in them (which amounts to little more than a couple of diodes to prevent back-current and an AVR) to stop the battery from "flip flopping". Rechargable batteries can invert a cell if you run them down too low. Nickel cadmium, metal hydrides, and even lead acid batteries can do this. When they do it, you start liberating hydrogen gas while it charges. Dell uses the absolute minimum quality parts for their machines, and rely on testing to sort out the bad parts. Taiwan -- notoriously, I might add -- stopped nearly every form of QA known in electrical engineering, several years ago. Manufacturers decided to let OEM's quality-assure their own products, instead of the plant. Failure rates in memory alone jumped above 10% (from something like 3%). So, just like army weapons are made by the lowest bidder, so too is Dell's batteries and charging circuits. This is why you never run a LiON battery down to shutoff. The circuits (inside the battery itself, as well as the device) are usually set to shut-off at 3.3v, well above the "critical" 1.7v. But my first guess would be the battery was used heavily and run down to under 3% on a consistent basis. That's just asking for a smack upside the head. Even cell-phone batteries will do this same feat. It's still funny to see the guy in the foreground trying to shutdown his laptop before getting away from the fire. |
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06-26-06, 12:34 PM
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Stowaway
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I've always run down my cell-phone batteries...it says you should in the manuals of all the phones I've had. It actually says you can damage the batteries if you recharge your phone while only half-way run down. Are you now saying I could blow my balls off with my phone which I sometimes keep in my trouser pocket?
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