{"id":4106,"date":"2013-08-14T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/dell-laptops-catch-fire-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:16:38","slug":"dell-laptops-catch-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/dell-laptops-catch-fire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Laptops Catch Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1971\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1972\" title=\"Dell Laptop Fire\" alt=\"Dell Laptop Fire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/8495c__laptop_dell_fire-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/>August 14, 2006<\/p>\n<p>Dell and Sony admit that flaws in Sony-manufactured batteries used in certain Dell laptops could result in the batteries overheating, catching fire, or exploding. <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2006%2F08%2F14%2Ftechnology%2F14cnd-battery.html%3F_r%3D1%26amp%3Bhp%26amp%3Bex%3D1155614400%26amp%3Ben%3D499692c95b993103%26amp%3Bei%3D5094%26amp%3Bpartner%3Dhomepage\" target=\"_blank\">They recall over 4.1 million batteries, the largest computer-related recall in history<\/a>. This came after several widely publicized reports in the preceding months\u00a0where Dell laptops did catch fire. Still to this day, Dell\u2019s reputation has never fully recovered from the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/373d8__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/14\/dell-laptops-catch-fire\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 14, 2006 Dell and Sony admit that flaws in Sony-manufactured batteries used in certain Dell laptops could result in the batteries overheating, catching fire, or exploding. They recall over 4.1 million batteries, the largest computer-related recall in history. This came after several widely publicized reports in the preceding months\u00a0where Dell laptops did catch fire. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1614,300,1615,4121],"class_list":["post-4106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-catch","tag-dell","tag-fire","tag-laptops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}