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Dell on fire again: Laptop ignites

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Jul 31, 20061 min

Dell is on fire again, and not in the good sense. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that another laptop ignited and turned into a flamethrower.

The newspaper’s Web site said that a reader who asked that he not be identified said his Dell laptop, supplied to him by his company, had burst into flames last November.

The man said he was working late in the office when the computer suddenly began to make “popping noises”.

“It wasn’t quite an explosion, but white smoke began to pour out of the machine, completely filling up the room, and there were flames coming up the sides of the laptop,” he told smh.com.au.

This latest report follows a flaming Dell laptop that was captured on film in Osaka, Japan last month, and another Dell that was reported to have burst into flames at an office in Illinois just last week

Dell owners, are you concerned? We’ll see if we can get Dell to comment. More to come.

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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