The board's technical experts are in possession of the battery that caught fire and are effectively performing an autopsy on its charred insides in a search for clues to what caused the conflagration.
At morning meetings during the Microsoft trial, Boies would arrive with a bag of bagels and eat only the insides of each, leaving the crusts piled on his plate--"as if a four-year-old had just had breakfast, " recalls Klein.
It's focusing instead on a new manufacturing process that replaces the layers of metal parts that hold the insides of most laptops together with a rigid aluminum shell.