this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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That laptop is no longer a laptop, it is a bomb.

TranscriptA photo of an extremely swollen HP laptop. The panels are kept on with clips. The caption says: "User calls about disc being stuck in another computer, mentions off hand about this laptop. They'd been using it like this for weeks...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

It must be some sort of hobby. Especially with the Elitebook series.

The G1 had a bad charging curve and tended to produce spicy pillows. HP fixed it with a firmware update, and since the G2 had mostly the same design, they were fine.

Then the G3 came out, again with an incorrect charging curve. HP fixed the problem. The G4 were fine.

G5? Bad charging curve… wanna guess if the G6 was affected?