MacBook Battery Catches Fire

An Aussie’s claiming his MacBook spontaneously combusted in the middle of the night while charging. Not exactly something you want to wake up to. The MacBook’s owners says he’d had some recent battery charging issues and saw a dramatic decrease in battery life. His smoke detector didn’t go off thanks to dead batteries, but his girlfriend and his dog woke up before the burning notebook caused serious damage.

From macyalk.au.com:

My girlfriend said she heard it hissing like a steam valve, then smoke started pouring out of it and a couple of seconds later, a very large flash fire started. I’m sure you have read about these and seen the dell video. This is what happened to my macbook.

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