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Rach3
There was a thread here recently about the http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550 video, I can't find it anymore. More news:
NYT said:Dell is recalling 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could erupt in flames, the company said today. This will be the largest safety recall in the history of the consumer electronics industry, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
Dell, the world’s largest PC maker, said the lithium-ion batteries were made by Sony and were installed in notebooks sold between April 2004 and July 18 of this year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/t...&en=499692c95b993103&ei=5094&partner=homepageDell has been bedeviled by reports of burning laptops in recent months. In June, a Dell notebook burst into flames during a conference in an Osaka, Japan, hotel. In July, firefighters in Vernon Hills, Ill., were called to the office of Tetra Pak, the food processing and packaging company, to extinguish a notebook fire hot enough to burn the desk beneath it.
That same month, a Dell notebook in the cab of a pickup parked alongside Lake Mead in Nevada caught fire, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks. The truck exploded. “A few minutes later and we’d have been coming up out of the canyon when the notebook blew up,” said Thomas Forqueran, owner of the laptop and truck. “Somebody is going to wind up getting killed.”
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