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Dell Recalls 4.1 Million Laptop Batteries
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
August 15, 2006, 12:00 AM

Under a deal negotiated with the U.S. Government's Consumer Product Safety Commission, Dell disclosed plans late Monday to recall nearly 4.1 million batteries. The recall would be the largest ever electronics recall negotiated by the agency, and would involve laptop batteries shipped between April 1, 2004 and July 18, 2006.

The batteries, made by Sony, have been the subject of increased scrutiny after media reports caught footage of at least two laptops catching fire due to the batteries overheating. The most notable of these was a laptop in Japan that exploded on video during a conference, prompting the company to launch an investigation into the matter.

Dell maintains that the these are isolated occurrences, however it is taking the broad measure as a safety precaution. According to a statement by the company, the batteries appeared in its Latitude, Inspiron, Precision, and XPS lines of notebook computers.

Those with affected machines are being urged to only use the laptops when connected through a power cord. Including problems with Dell, batteries in at least 339 devices from cell phones to laptops have overheated since 2003, causing burns, injuries and property damage, the CPSC reported.

On three previous occasions over the last five years, Dell has had to recall batteries shipped in its laptops. The most recent of these was in December of last year, when the company recalled 35,000 batteries over a risk of overheating. Another large scale recall of 284,000 batteries occurred in 2001.


http://www.betanews.com/article/Dell_Recalls_41_Million_Laptop_Batteries/1155612057

[pdxsteve]

go to www.dellbatteryprogram.com and enter your battery's serial number to see if it's included in this latest recall. It indicated that my battery wasn't part of the recall, which kind of sucks because I need a new battery, but oh well.

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[pdxsteve]

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Man, that's a lot of laptops, I knew Dell was big and there are lots of laptops sold worldwide, but... that figure is still completely staggering!

Will we drown in junked cellphones, crt monitors, and laptops before global warming or Jihadists or Armageddon get a shot at killing us?

[Milwaukiedave]

Thanks for the site, I'm going to check mine as well. Although I don't think it's part of the recall.

On a related subject, one of the stocks I own went in the toilet yesterday (figuarately speaking). They are a company here in Korea and also make batteries for labtops, cell phones, etc. I wonder if there's a connection to their stock and the whole recall thing with Dell.