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Title: Take safety seriously: Stop using bulgy batteries and smoking monitors
Post by: HCK on May 03, 2020, 04:05:14 pm
Take safety seriously: Stop using bulgy batteries and smoking monitors

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<p>The Mac 911 mailbag is usually full of questions about software, how to connect old Apple displays to newer Macs (https://www.macworld.com/article/3534509/connect-old-apple-display-to-a-new-mac-to-give-it-new-life.html), and failing Wi-Fi (https://www.macworld.com/article/3104631/what-to-do-when-your-macs-wi-fi-hardware-is-having-problems.html). However, with a huge number of people suddenly working from home, we've had a spate of emails that start, "I'm not sure if this is safe, but" and proceed to describe monitors producing a burning smell or smoking lightly, batteries bulging out of laptops and mobile devices, and similar accounts of electrical or electro-chemical concerns.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3540698/take-safety-seriously-stop-using-bulgy-batteries-and-smoking-monitors.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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