{"id":4457,"date":"2008-01-18T01:07:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T01:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/the-dell-xps-laptops-are-shock.html"},"modified":"2008-01-18T01:07:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T01:07:52","slug":"the-dell-xps-laptops-are-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/the-dell-xps-laptops-are-shock.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dell XPS Laptops are shocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crave.cnet.com\/8301-1_105-9852716-1.html?part=rss&amp;tag=feed&amp;subj=Crave\">Literally<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;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.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThe problem only seems to occur in Dell laptops that have a brushed-aluminium finish. These include the XPS M1330 and XPS  M1530. It&#8217;s caused by the two-pronged connection between the mains lead and the power adaptor, which isn&#8217;t earthed properly because of its lack of a third pin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/01\/17\/dell-laptops-packing-a-jolt-again\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally! We&#8217;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. [&#8230;] The problem&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Dell XPS Laptops are shocking - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/the-dell-xps-laptops-are-shock.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Dell XPS Laptops are shocking - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Literally! 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