Submitted by Dell plans to announce a voluntary recall of 4.1 million lithium-ion batteries used within its laptops because the batteries could overheat, prompting a risk of fire. The batteries, manufactured by Sony, were found in 25 Dell laptops and eight Dell ‘mobile workstation’-class notebook PCs. Dellbatteryprogram.com provides instructions on how to determine whether a notebook battery was affected by the recall, and if so, how to ship it back.
…when I say that I’m weary of having a running notebook on my lap…close to the ‘boys’…if ya know what I mean.
Edited 2006-08-16 00:19
Weird. They were replacing batteries back in december last year and now they are doing it again. I can’t belive they didn’t know/check at the time that more of the battery types can be affected… They just probably wanted then to save some money anyway and replace only those potentially _really_ dangerous. Now they are replacing (hopefully) the rest, since these are dangerous anyway. Though I checked mine, it’s not to be replaced, again. Will see the next time…
Edited 2006-08-16 01:59
while I snicker.
Edited 2006-08-16 02:18
This maybe has got to do with the famous laptop that caught fire.