I just read this... must have been a Dell.
But what kind of a man/woman is willing to put up with the smell of flesh/electrical whatever when using their pc? Well, if most people on the wintel side are willing to put with MS then I wouldn't be too surprise.
Smoking laptop nearly brings down plane
Person with burning crotch
By Nick Farrell: Friday 15 July 2005, 08:12
AN AUSSIE aircraft hit panic stations after the smell from an overheated laptop was thought to mean that the plane was on fire.
A Virgin Blue Boeing 737-700 was half an hour from Coolangatta on a flight from Sydney late yesterday when the pilot radioed ahead to have emergency services put on standby.
Apparently the cabin crew noticed an electrical smell in the cabin and warned the captain.
What they didn’t notice was a person whose laptop was getting a little warm or why the electrical smell was mixed with that of burning trousers. The smell disappeared when the crew went to action stations, because the passenger put his laptop away.
The plane landed without incident but later checked by engineers just in case. We don’t know what happened to the laptop. However, we should point out to any suicide bombers that using an overheated laptop to set fire to your crotch is not the best way to kill yourself. It is better to drown in the rising tide of pornography.
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