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Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

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Post by jchw »

mekpro wrote: post #3

And Apple just announced the battery recall https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/20/apple-2015-macbook-pro-...

It’ll be interesting to compare the public reception of this incident versus the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 event, especially given Apple’s PR prowess. Seems like a similar sort of incident, though maybe even rarer to actually encounter given how old the laptops are now.

Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

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Post by vallsurf »

jchw wrote: post #5
mekpro wrote: post #3

And Apple just announced the battery recall https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/20/apple-2015-macbook-pro-...

It’ll be interesting to compare the public reception of this incident versus the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 event, especially given Apple’s PR prowess. Seems like a similar sort of incident, though maybe even rarer to actually encounter given how old the laptops are now.

The difference here is a single (known) instance of a 4 year old product vs widespread issues with a brand new one on release.

Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

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Post by WalterBright »

My desktop caught fire once. I pulled the plug and the fire went out. Turns out the graphics card burst into flames. That had never happened to me before in 40 years of desktops.

I had a fair amount of smoke damage that needed cleaning up.

Now it sits on a piece of sheet steel instead of the wood floor.

Edit: I usually assemble my desktop cases from mail order parts. This desktop happened to have a metal case rather than a plastic one - my future builds will all be metal cases.

Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

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Post by dijit »

grumdan wrote: post #6

I wonder if they have grounds to sue, over Apple producing an unsafe product.

I find that to be very unlikely. Batteries are known to have failure modes that include explosion. It’s certainly not unique to this laptop, or even laptops alone. This is the only case I’ve heard about and it’s a 4year old laptop that had been repaired.

As such I don’t think it’s a fault in the design, necessarily.

Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

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Post by jchw »

vallsurf wrote: post #7
jchw wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’ll be interesting to compare the public reception of this incident versus the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 event, especially given Apple’s PR prowess. Seems like a similar sort of incident, though maybe even rarer to actually encounter given how old the laptops are now.

The difference here is a single (known) instance of a 4 year old product vs widespread issues with a brand new one on release.

All we know is that there's one incident, and now there is a recall. If there was no endemic issue, there should not reasonably be a recall; there's been handfuls of stories about iPhones burning up that have not ended up resulting in recalls, presumably because they're isolated issues.

I don't actually know how many Note 7's burnt up before they recalled, but I don't think it was ever very many. The main difference in this case is whatever issue exists, it was relatively benign for at least four years, which I agree hints that the issue is far less severe. But of course, no less dangerous.

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