Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Aug 2006 17:45 UTC, submitted by DigitalDame
Hardware, Embedded Systems 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.
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I kid you not...
by Harald on Wed 16th Aug 2006 00:17 UTC
Harald
Member since:
2006-03-10

...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

Again?
by cromo on Wed 16th Aug 2006 01:57 UTC
cromo
Member since:
2006-06-17

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

Excust me
by JonInAtlanta on Wed 16th Aug 2006 02:18 UTC
JonInAtlanta
Member since:
2006-02-17

while I snicker.

Edited 2006-08-16 02:18

Explosion
by Gryzor on Wed 16th Aug 2006 10:23 UTC
Gryzor
Member since:
2005-07-03

This maybe has got to do with the famous laptop that caught fire.