As many know the portable market is always pushing ahead with new technology, higher battery life, larger screens, higher resolutions, more RAM, greater expandibility and so on. It seems in the recent week though things have taken a turn for the worse.

Earlier this week the Inquirer reported on an exploding Dell during a conference. The system was caught on camera at the point of explosion, quite a sight indeed and a demonstration as to the potential of how hot things might get on your lap if you're not careful. The smoking book has yet to be idenified any further at this point though.

More recently has been the latest story going around of the swelling or bulging MacBook Pro battery found in the early shipments of the system. The bluge primarily being a bit of  a hike in the center of the base plastic covering the battery. So far this is being labeled as a possible internal explosion that then fails out on the user entirely with random shutdowns. Luckily in this case there hasn't been anything near as large as what the Dell produced.

It's always interesting to see these things turn up, I mean for the most part everyone takes it for granted that the worst they might have for a situation is a bad lcd or other components, I don't think many really put thought into the explosion factor of their laptops when they purchased them. Maybe an index should be introduced for consumers to check out before they buy.