We at Red Herring are thinking about creating a running tally of laptops that burst into flames as a result of faulty batteries from Sony. Ever since Dell recalled 4.1 million laptop batteries in mid August, stories about dangerous laptops have kept on coming. The latest is an incident at Yahoo and features, yes, a Dell laptop. Oh wait. I just read about a Lenovo ThinkPad caused a stir at LAX when its owner ran out of a plane during boarding because the laptop was smoking--it later caught fire. Three airlines--Korean, Quantas, and Virgin Atlantic--now bar passengers from using laptops unless they take off the battery packs and use the power outlets near their seats.
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