My Laptop almost blew up
I’ve been having problems with my laptop for the past week or so with it randomly turning off (with 45 minutes of battery left), my mouse button not working very well and it getting hot enough to fry eggs on (quite literally).
Today I pulled my laptop out of its bag and realized it was bowing - and that freaked me out. Being at a geek conference it felt like the whole room looked at me wondering what was going on with my battery.
One guy standing next to me wigged out, grabbed the battery, and threw it across the room. His next action was pushing my head to the floor as he yelled to the rest of the conference hall “For the love of God - Everyone get down - it’s going to blow!”.
Actually - that never happened. What really happened was a few guys told me to leave and go straight to an Apple store (luckly only 15 minutes away) and get a new battery.
Showing it to the Genius Bar at the Apple store was interesting as all of them stopped what they were doing to look at my battery. I heard some muttering back and forth after I jokenly asked if my battery was supposed to change form.
I remember hearing one guy say - “Wow, it actually got hot enough to seperate the cover from the battery”. A few minutes later I was handed a new battery with no questions asked. They said have a nice day and I was gone with all my problems now solved.
Aaron Says:
Just an idea of what could have happened:
Note: Sony made the batteries for Dell, Apple and a few others.