All of the battery issues that we have seen over the last few years have forced me to reconsider using a laptop actually in my lap. I don’t mind the heat from the computer nearly as much as I would mind a battery exploding on my gonads. Typically, these battery explosions have been mostly limited to Windows computers, but today a new report of a MacBook Pro battery blowing its top has come in.

Engadget reports that the MacBook Pro is a 17-inch non-unibody machine that was being used on a desktop at the time the incident occurred. According to the user, a strange noise began and then got louder.

The notebook then reportedly “jumped up” slightly and turned off. The image you see here is what the battery looked like after the incident. There is no word on what might have caused the battery to explode at this time. I am just glad the notebook was on a desk and not a lap when this happened.

Engadget