Analyst Calls For More Stringent Laptop Safety
July 11, 2006 at 05:45:00 AM, by Thai Tan
After the Dell exploding battery fiasco, some are calling for improved quality control and safety tests among laptop manufacturers.
After a recent battery explosion at a conference, some are worried about laptop safety.
CIO reports that Carmi Levy, a senior analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, is making an appeal to regulatory bodies for more stringent battery and AC adapter testing procedures before the devices are sold to the public. Levy warns of further potential tragedies due to laptop power problems, including airline disasters. "Everyone worries about explosives being taken covertly on board planes, but what about the average laptop that could be just as dangerous?"
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[Levy] said as laptops become faster, they generate greater heat, but their thinner and smaller design does not allow adequate dissipation of temperature. "We would like laptop and battery manufacturers to build better thermal management into their design. Governments in turn need to tighten regulations and make sure these are complied with."
We sure are glad there aren't more pressing issues at this time of economic prosperity and peaceful brotherhood in the world, so we can now focus on the imminent danger of thermonuclear lithium ion battery packs.
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