Posts RSSWe've discovered a worrying new feature in some Dell laptops: if you touch them, you may get an electric shock. This discharge can vary in strength from a gentle tingle to a sudden jolt. Disturbingly, you could also be shocked when connecting printers, PDAs and other peripherals to the offending laptops.
Referred by Jim
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I had a Sony VGN-S5M/S (late 2005 13.3" model) which did the same thing, plus more! Basically if you had the metal bits of the laptop in contact with your skin while it was plugged in, you when someone else touched you they would feel a vibrating sensation (where I was - Ireland - it was a 50Hz vibration in line with the 50Hz line power). The real problem with this was that it confused the touchpad and sometimes caused it to go completely nuts! I've also noticed shocks from the screws on the bottoms of my old Gateway laptop when I take it to the can with me. This isn't such an uncommon phenonemon - which, like the Vaio and the Dell in the above ad, had an non-grounded/earthed power supply - but it is annoying!
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