My laptop exploded
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Mine for my XPS is not affect. I'm kinda glad, since I didn't want to deal with getting the new one and yada yada.
Note to Silverbullet. I wouldn't leave the battery in while keeping the laptop plugged in and not cycling the battery nearly constanly. I killed my Gateway battery by doing that.
Note to Silverbullet. I wouldn't leave the battery in while keeping the laptop plugged in and not cycling the battery nearly constanly. I killed my Gateway battery by doing that.
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Originally Posted by Princess Jeanie
Mine for my XPS is not affect. I'm kinda glad, since I didn't want to deal with getting the new one and yada yada.
Note to Silverbullet. I wouldn't leave the battery in while keeping the laptop plugged in and not cycling the battery nearly constanly. I killed my Gateway battery by doing that.
Note to Silverbullet. I wouldn't leave the battery in while keeping the laptop plugged in and not cycling the battery nearly constanly. I killed my Gateway battery by doing that.
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Originally Posted by Princess Jeanie
I wouldn't leave the battery in while keeping the laptop plugged in and not cycling the battery nearly constanly. I killed my Gateway battery by doing that.
Most lithium ion-batteries have 200-400 charge cycles, that means if it has to charge every day it will only last a year.
The reason for batteries exploding is due to the hotter processors used in newer computers, and the relation to the battery, which if it reaches a certain temperature insulating material can melt and cuase a short. Every case so far the system was on and not able to get ventilation.
The odds of dying in a car accident is 1 in 5000, the odds of having your laptop explode so far would be 1 in 5,000,000. (6 laptops blew up, 30 million dell laptops in use right now) If it did blow up you could have one heck of a lawsuit.
However this is a design flaw using the wrong types of materials.
Ever leave your laptop on a bed turned on? it will get quite warm if the intake fans are on the bottom and unable to get air.
Another issue causing heat is when the fan fails, then the laptop will shut down but not before it gets extremely hot.
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ok i have one of them lithium ion batteries but for the most part it norm pluged in due to performance issues. pluged in it runns at full prossesor power battery it only runns at 50% but should i let it cycle to battery every few days or somthing. the only time i have it unpluged is while im at school and even then the computer lap has plugs for most major brands............
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