Dell laptop burns in China

Another Dell laptop has gone to the great warehouse in the sky, wafted aloft on a cloud of smoke produced by a burning battery. The incident took place last week in China. Details of the Dell destruction were posted on Chinese-language blog HiPDA, along with a heap of pictures showing the blaze and its aftermath. Here are a couple: At this stage, its not known whether the Dell in question was a model covered by the PC giants August 2006 battery recall and if so, whether the owner took advantage of the free replacement batteries Dell is still making available. The onlookers appear entirely unfazed by the blaze. A sign theres more to the fire than meets the eye? Or are notebook owners becoming to blasé about this kind of conflagration it simply doesnt bother them any longer.