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March 13, 2007

hardware

The book, the book, the book is on fire

Posted Mar. 13, ’07, 6:51 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Hardware

MacBook Explosion As sad as it is for mattyb, the photos from his MacBook bursting into flames are quite a sight to behold.

3am last night. I woke up to my housemate screaming (yelling “Matty!”) and the dog barking. She fell asleep on the couch in the back lounge of our house. I jumped out of bed and raced out thinking that maybe somebody had come through the back door or something.

As I was running I saw a fire. At first I thought that the lamp had fallen and set fire to the curtain. As I got closer I realised it was my mac book …. burning!

That’s really rough. It wasn’t even a year old, meaning new replacement, but big inconvenience. Then again, if mattyb read and listened to me, he would have his backup recently done and ready for the next piece of hardware. All of you have done the same, right? Right?

It’s also a great lesson in paying attention to weird laptop battery behavior. Considering the incredible explosive potential in lithium-ion batteries, it is not something you just ignore.


1 Comments

Walt Basil said:

Yikes! Yep… backing up makes perfect sense, and it really saved my butt recently with a failed hard drive, which inadvertently allowed me to upgrade the size of my hard drive. Thankfully, at that time, Backup incrementally backed up my critical information every night at 6:30 to .mac. Getting all my really important data back (calendar, contacts, email, keychain items, bookmarks, was as easy as syncing with the .mac server. But what my other stuff that’s not so critical? It’s backed up every Sunday to another HD on my network. This grabs all my Office docs, iLife & iWork docs, and iTunes data, which covers just about anything on my system that I’ll need. Anything else I may need (like Quicken) automatically backs up its data to my .mac iDisk using its own built in .mac support.

March 13, 2007 7:41 AM

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