Read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/technolo...&ei=5087%0A
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/technolo...d-customer.html
https://www.dellbatt...om/Default.aspx
Dell is recalling notebook batteries due to a fire hazard. Expect the same from other notebook manufacturers. The culprit is Sony. What else can Sony screw up these days?
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For those who own dell notebooks...
Started by z2z007, Aug 14 2006 10:44 PM
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Posted 14 August 2006 - 10:44 PM
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Posted 14 August 2006 - 11:29 PM
Oh, fun. I just pulled out my spare battery, and guess what-- its a lithium ion one, which probably means its getting recalled. Great.
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Posted 14 August 2006 - 11:49 PM
There's been a trend towards battery recalls lately...
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 11:17 AM
Nearly every battery you can think of is lithium based or nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH).
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 03:35 PM
Thank you z2z007 
and thank goodness that mine wasn't affected cuz I bought my dell after July 18 and my battery says Made in Korea. (Now that I put that i put the battery back in after checking, the battery latch won't go back all the way to its original place 
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This isn't really related to the topic but a friend of mine gave me a great advice. Since laptops are like a heating machine, levitate your laptop so the bottoms get more air flow by putting books on the bottom edges. And never put it on thermally-insulating surfaces, such as a bed sheet. Hopefully this might prevent another dell laptop fire.
and thank goodness that mine wasn't affected cuz I bought my dell after July 18 and my battery says Made in Korea. (Now that I put that i put the battery back in after checking, the battery latch won't go back all the way to its original place )This isn't really related to the topic but a friend of mine gave me a great advice. Since laptops are like a heating machine, levitate your laptop so the bottoms get more air flow by putting books on the bottom edges. And never put it on thermally-insulating surfaces, such as a bed sheet. Hopefully this might prevent another dell laptop fire.
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 03:47 PM
Speaking of which, I just happened to read this a few days ago...
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/raskin/688
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/raskin/688
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 07:30 PM
Yay, my laptop is in the clear. And very good, because I love my widescreen laptop very much.
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Posted 16 August 2006 - 12:01 AM
fieryfairy, on Aug 15 2006, 02:35 PM, said:
Thank you z2z007 and thank goodness that mine wasn't affected cuz I bought my dell after July 18 and my battery says Made in Korea. (Now that I put that i put the battery back in after checking, the battery latch won't go back all the way to its original place )
This isn't really related to the topic but a friend of mine gave me a great advice. Since laptops are like a heating machine, levitate your laptop so the bottoms get more air flow by putting books on the bottom edges. And never put it on thermally-insulating surfaces, such as a bed sheet. Hopefully this might prevent another dell laptop fire.
and thank goodness that mine wasn't affected cuz I bought my dell after July 18 and my battery says Made in Korea. (Now that I put that i put the battery back in after checking, the battery latch won't go back all the way to its original place )This isn't really related to the topic but a friend of mine gave me a great advice. Since laptops are like a heating machine, levitate your laptop so the bottoms get more air flow by putting books on the bottom edges. And never put it on thermally-insulating surfaces, such as a bed sheet. Hopefully this might prevent another dell laptop fire.
Some explosions have occured while the dell computer was on standby. There is no way to protect against such a defect in a battery, except for not not having a battery in the laptop at all.
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