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Submitted by JuanSolid on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 12:00pm

I looked at the comments and everyone is taking this article to be more acurate than the link it points too. THERE IS NO PICTURE FOR THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE!!!

So everyone is argueing about who made the thing, what model it is, and how it could have killed the guy based on a random picture of a blown up laptop. It's not necessarily what he was using, maximum pc just requires that all articles have at least one picture it looks like.

Also note that it had to be closed and therefore most likely not in use, or at least in use in such a way that you would sit cross legged in front of it on the floor. The schorch mark on the screen indicates it was closed at time of explosion/fire/whatever.

How most of everyone who commented here over looked that, besides not even checking the original article for a picture, is totally beyond me I guess.

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See kids this is what

Submitted by DMI PC Repair on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 6:42am

See kids this is what happens when  you buy a Dell, and work for IBM.

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This was a suicide...

Submitted by rchandru on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 2:51am

Now believe me when I say this. I live in Velachery, Chennai, India and I live in the same apartment as Vijaykumar. This guy committed suicide by self-immolation. Explosion of any sort did not occur and there was no laptop in his house!!!

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I bet it was...............

Submitted by ghot on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 12:38am

.....Windows Vista that "did him in"   :)

 

Take an OS, and edit out all the efficiency, and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)

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Looks like the fire was put

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 12:00am

Looks like the fire was put out with a Dry Chemical ABC Type Fire Exstinguisher. That yellow/white dust all over it gives it away.

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Dell Recall

Submitted by devin3627 on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 10:28pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuNSzs679Sw

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Dell Recall

Submitted by devin3627 on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 10:28pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuNSzs679Sw

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Thinkers.

Submitted by MyNameIsNas on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 6:25pm

Looks like a Thinkpad to me. I can see that there's a Touchpoint and also maybe an older version of Lenovo/IBM UltraNav..... Cant really see the second right&left button though..

 Update: Sorry guys.. guess it was Dell..hmm.. Found similar happenings too.. And also looks like at the same spot.

 http://www.tracingadget.com/50226711/eaeee_ceeccc_114657.php

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Israeli Agents killed a

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 8:55pm

Israeli Agents killed a terrorist with a bomb in a phone. They called him and he answered and they pushed a remote button and the bomb blew his head off.

I wonder what the story is on the guy that died. If he was a terrorist or something.

 

 Also Ram Prasad sounds like a Jewish name. He could be a Mussad agent.

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Model

Submitted by jwalch.hawk on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 8:26pm

Can anyone 100% ID the laptop in the picture (I saw one comment below suggesting it's a Dell Latitude)?

What appears to be the source location of the explosion in the picture is on my machine (which is certainly not the one pictured) pretty much right over the hard drive, which makes the big frigging hole right there a bit suspicious. 

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That looks more like the guy

Submitted by Digital-Storm on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 8:22pm

That looks more like the guy that was in the shower murdered him, and then burned the laptop. Seriously, it looks like the laptop was closed.

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Macs do not explode. It was

Submitted by Lord Omega on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 7:30pm

Macs do not explode. It was a battery explosion for only lithium-ion batteries could explode withough any kind of warning and kill with that much heat.

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similar...........?

Submitted by devin3627 on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 7:05pm

a worker somewheere or whatever's cell phone battery exploded while he was working in really hot heat. sounds kinda similar???

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He was a victim of his own insecurity

Submitted by notailmouse2 on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 5:44pm

Thermite was stuffed underneath the hd to easily destroy data it was accidently ignited

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uhhhh....

Submitted by WhiteRabbit22 on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 5:10pm

Couldn't this have been an assasination? Hard drive bomb? I've seen people make emergency hard drive destruction devices, like hackers trying to hide stuff. Maybe he made one and accidentally set it off?

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Suspicious

Submitted by skhills on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 4:30pm

The fainting bit seems a bit too convenient.  It'd be an easy way to answer "I don't know, I was unconsious" to any questioning.  Now if the victim was the one taking the bath, I'd buy it...

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that is some strange news.

Submitted by bingojubes on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 4:12pm

it looks like the laptop was closed when it blew up. but don't count on my lack of forensics experience.

sorry to hear about the engineer. strange but i don't want to get that brand of laptop, ever.

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He probably had a faulty

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 3:47pm

He probably had a faulty battery with a Lithium leak. Lithium is highly corrosive and I guess can explode as some cell phones using Lithium batteries have exploded into flames in airplanes. I assume that the casing of the Lithium battieries were compremised while the aircraft was pressurized and de-pressurised for high altitude flight.  

Also Magnesium is used in the production of laptops these days and magnesium does not play nice with other metals. The Magnesium in the laptop could have reacted to another metal made worse by the heat generated from the components of the computer. In fact the Battery could have burned undetected until the heat reached magnesium parts in the laptop and the magnesium exploded sending components and hot fluids and gases into the victim thus killing the poor man. 

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must of been a

Submitted by pellier on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 3:18pm

must of been a mac

 

 

 

*not trying to be insensitive

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