Dude, your Dell’s Exploding
About three weeks ago, we saw a Dell laptop burst into flames at a business conference in Osaka, Japan. Dell stated that they were currently looking into the issue. Now, a second Dell laptop has exploded: apparently, its battery caught on fire in an office building.
Remembering Dell’s battery recall in 2005 (”These batteries can overheat, which could pose a fire risk.”), perhaps this Dell owner did not bother to get his battery replaced. Or, of course, it might be that there are more Dell batteries that need to be recalled for public safety.
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on July 31st, 2006 at 8:57 am
Check out this article: www.crn.com/weblogs/thechart/blog.jhtml?id=190700059
Here are the pictures that go with it: kd7lrj.blogspot.com/2006/07/dell-laptop-battery-trouble-at-novell.html
on August 15th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
[…] I shoud have seen it coming: a Dell Battery Recall. After many Dell laptops have been recently exploding, Dell finally recalls batteries on Dell Latitude, Inspiron, XPS and Dell Precision Mobile Workstation notebooks. How many batteries? Oh, just 4.1 million batteries, making this “the largest safety recall in the history of the consumer electronics industry.” […]
on August 20th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Just when you thought it was safe to buy a Dell…
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on December 18th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
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