subject: Notebook Apple Powerbook On The Desk Clerk Very Heated And Puffed [print this page] In June 2009, in the lobby of the airport in Los Angeles on fire laptop IBM . To extinguish the device had to use a fire extinguisher. Similar things have happened to the notebooks of Dell . In all cases, the batteries used in laptops, were made in China.
Lead Analyst, Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin said that often explode "fakes that do not have the proper electronics, administering the charge." The second common cause of explosions Dell d820 battery improper use: the device being beaten, wet. "
According to experts, the cost of "brand" battery of about $ 15-20 in China, while the cheapest analog unknown production worth $ 1-3.
The only way to protect yourself, says Murtazin, a "buy only" proprietary "batteries".
Independent expert of the market of mobile devices and smartphones, Mikhail Fadeev urged to treat the issue more calmly: "All this talk about having a place of" explosion of batteries "are in the nature of mass hysteria. Exactly the same way as the swine flu. Talk about it all who can. In reality, however a small percentage of sick people.
Look at how many units sold Apple . And how many units sold Nokia . If the millions of units sold to happen two, three,
five and ten such incidents a drop in the ocean. All laptop batteries are almost all brands manufactured by the same Chinese factories on the same technology from the same components.
Simple cases with Nokia and the iPhone attracted attention in comparison with similar situations with other brands, thanks to the popularity of these devices in the mass consumer. "
A Similar incidents have occurred, of course, not only in France. In July, iPod Touch , collected from almost the same components as the iPhone , has started to heat directly into the hands of 11-year old British girl. Fortunately, the situation was the girl's father, Ken Stenboro, who promptly threw the device out the window. After 30 seconds of it went to smoke.dell gd761 battery When the victim came to the office of Apple , he suggested replacing the device, but only if Stenboro will not advertise the incident. Outraged British did not go to the deal and told his story to the country's largest newspaper.
