Dell recalls 4 million batteries

After a number of Dell notebooks have exploded into flames, Dell has issued a recall of 4.1 million batteries (made by Sony).  The notebooks were sold between April 2004 and July 2006.  It makes you wonder how many other notebooks are affected by similar Sony batteries.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/15/1155407776670.html

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3 Responses to “Dell recalls 4 million batteries”

  1. Jason Drohn Says:
    August 15, 2006 at 1:38 pm | Reply

    It should be interesting to see how that shapes up in their public relations..

  2. cyberetto » Blog Archive » Now Apple recalls Sony batteries Says:
    August 25, 2006 at 6:48 am | Reply

    [...] When we heard of Dell recalling Sony batteries, we wondered how many other companies’ computers were being affected.  Now we hear that Apple is recalling 1.8 million batteries, in the older G4 iBook and Powerbook.  Sony expects that the recall (of the Dell and Apple batteries) will cost them $172-258 million. [...]

  3. Now Apple recalls Sony batteries | cyberetto Says:
    November 29, 2007 at 9:29 pm | Reply

    [...] we heard of Dell recalling Sony batteries, we wondered how many other companies’ computers were being affected. Now we hear that Apple [...]

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