I heard 2 seperate instances of HCL Laptops exploding and catching fire. Both were my friends, but were of either ends and they didnt know each other.

Attracted by the price, and really needing a laptop to help them in their works, both of them had bought HCL laptops around the same time late last year. Last December, a guy was working on his laptop on the bed, and had left it on  the bed for a glass of water when he he heard an explosion while gulping his water. Caughing, he had looked aound to find that his bed was starting to catch fire. Even in an AC room, I dont know how the laptop got so hot that it burst.

In another instance, late february of 2008, another laptop exploded setting up his night pants on fire. Everything inside was safe, he said. Not inside the laptop.

A laptop is somehting that is supposed to placed on the lap and even in an Air Conditioned room, if it would explode, why would someone ever go for a laptop?

The founder of HCL belongs to a town called Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu, which is famous for crackers across India and several parts of the world. Maybe he has put a bit of his ancestory on his laptops as well.