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This is the third Dell laptop to spontaneously explode in just over a month. This time, the victim was a man in Signapore and the Dell laptop in question is a Latitude D410. I wonder what’s going to happen first, will Dell finally do a product recall on their run of affected laptop batteries, or will “Dude you got a Dell!” suddenly become recognized as a product warning rather than a marketing slogan?

Update: Dell has issued a battery recall for the following laptops:

• Latitude D410, D505, D510, D600, D610, D800, D810
• Inspiron 510M, 600M, 6000, 8600, 9200, 9300, XPS Gen 2
• Precision M20, M70

If you have one of these laptops, I’d recommend you go here unless you want the above to happen to you.

The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: MashUp / Dell’s battery malfunctions Archives [via Engadget]