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PSA: Keep An Eye On Your Older Laptops For Swelling Batteries – Forbes
Lithium Ion batteries brought greatly increased battery life to laptops, but that did come at a cost: the risk of battery fire. As noted by Consumer Reports, a lithium ion laptop battery membrane that is compromised has the potential to trigger a runaway thermal reaction that could reach temperatures of over 1,000° F in a matter of seconds, leading to a fire or even an explosion. It’s not just the heat and flames that are a danger…….