So, my little sister is in her last year of college and is having problems with her laptop, a Dell Latitude D820. The laptop was purchased in summer 2007 before she started school.

Dell has since noted that the production of their XPS 13 Plus no longer uses the adhesive that affected these early models, and that new models of the laptop should have zero issues.

The problem: When you boot the laptop with the screen closed the machine fires up the POST on the DVI screen fine. You then change to the BitLocker login screen which also works ok.

Dell's 'exploding laptop' problems take another twist Canadian legal action alleges that Dell knew it had a problem with its Inspiron notebooks, but sold them anyway.