<story><title>My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bulbhv/my_macbook_pro_exploded_and_burst_into_flames/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_cujo</author><text>&amp;gt;the 2018 one I have right now since they can&amp;#x27;t be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m going a little offtopic, but I cannot believe this. I haven&amp;#x27;t owned a Mac since having a 2010 MBP (which I loved dearly for 6 years), but I cannot imagine owning a laptop that doesn&amp;#x27;t allow me to switch the internal drive. It was annoying enough with all of the screws on the 2010 model.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there is some justification is for this beyond &amp;quot;we want you to buy a new one if something goes wrong&amp;quot;, but I&amp;#x27;m coming up blank.</text></item><item><author>ben7799</author><text>This started to happen to mine at work too.   Luckily I got it down to IT before it started on fire.&lt;p&gt;They took the hard drive out.   Opening the case released pressure on the swelling battery.  As soon as it was open the battery started swelling faster.   The case could never have been closed again.   The whole enclosure bent like a soda can.  I should have figured out earlier what was going on.  The first sign was the computer started to seem wobbly if you stuck it on the desk and typed on the internal KB.   I thought the little rubber feet on the bottom were worn, in actuality it was the case starting to deform.   What finally figured it out for me was the swelling started to make the keyboard stop functioning properly.  Some keys were stuck.&lt;p&gt;It got stuffed in a bag and run over to the Apple store (which is only about 200 yards away).&lt;p&gt;Never heard a word about it again, they threw my HDD in another MBP and I was off and running with almost no downtime.&lt;p&gt;Of course that was like a 2013 MBP, that would not happen with the 2018 one I have right now since they can&amp;#x27;t be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jolmg</author><text>A little more off-topic but my work laptop is a Panasonic toughbook (CF-C2), and I was impressed to find that I could swap-out the storage drive with my bare hands (no tool!). That was pretty cool. You just unlock the tray holding the drive, pull it, unplug the drive from it, plug the new one in, and push the tray back in. Super simple.&lt;p&gt;The arguments around why laptops are becoming less and less modular are usually that having mechanisms to attach and detach these parts take space, and so if people want thinner and thinner laptops, they need to remove these mechanisms. Personally, though, I can&amp;#x27;t see why I&amp;#x27;d want a thinner laptop. The toughbook is thick, even by pre-ultrabook standards, but it&amp;#x27;s still very, very comfortable.</text></comment>
<story><title>My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bulbhv/my_macbook_pro_exploded_and_burst_into_flames/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_cujo</author><text>&amp;gt;the 2018 one I have right now since they can&amp;#x27;t be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m going a little offtopic, but I cannot believe this. I haven&amp;#x27;t owned a Mac since having a 2010 MBP (which I loved dearly for 6 years), but I cannot imagine owning a laptop that doesn&amp;#x27;t allow me to switch the internal drive. It was annoying enough with all of the screws on the 2010 model.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there is some justification is for this beyond &amp;quot;we want you to buy a new one if something goes wrong&amp;quot;, but I&amp;#x27;m coming up blank.</text></item><item><author>ben7799</author><text>This started to happen to mine at work too.   Luckily I got it down to IT before it started on fire.&lt;p&gt;They took the hard drive out.   Opening the case released pressure on the swelling battery.  As soon as it was open the battery started swelling faster.   The case could never have been closed again.   The whole enclosure bent like a soda can.  I should have figured out earlier what was going on.  The first sign was the computer started to seem wobbly if you stuck it on the desk and typed on the internal KB.   I thought the little rubber feet on the bottom were worn, in actuality it was the case starting to deform.   What finally figured it out for me was the swelling started to make the keyboard stop functioning properly.  Some keys were stuck.&lt;p&gt;It got stuffed in a bag and run over to the Apple store (which is only about 200 yards away).&lt;p&gt;Never heard a word about it again, they threw my HDD in another MBP and I was off and running with almost no downtime.&lt;p&gt;Of course that was like a 2013 MBP, that would not happen with the 2018 one I have right now since they can&amp;#x27;t be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>napsterbr</author><text>&amp;gt; I cannot imagine owning a laptop that doesn&amp;#x27;t allow me to switch the internal drive.&lt;p&gt;+1. One of the (many) reasons I&amp;#x27;ll never own a Mac.</text></comment>