Dell Recalls 4.1 Million Sony Manufactured Laptop Batteries

August 15th, 2006 1:16 AM | by Christen da Costa | 4 Comments

Dell Laptop Battery ExplodingIn case you didn’t see the pics floating around the net, yes, Dell Laptop batteries have had a propensity to overheat and explode. The lithium-ion batteries were sold in laptops from April 1, 2004 to July 18, 2006. The following Del Laptop batteries have been recalled: the Dell Latitude D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, and D810; the Inspiron 6000, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 500m, 510m, 600m, 6400, E1505, 700m, 710m, 9400, and E1705; and the Dell Precision M20, M60, M70 and M90 mobile workstations; and XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170 and XPS M1710.

Dell Recalls more then 4 million laptop batteries [EETimes]

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4 Responses to “Dell Recalls 4.1 Million Sony Manufactured Laptop Batteries”

  1. Matty says:

    God damn Dell and their crappy manufacturing. Id expect a class action to come out of this. Cha Ching for some lawyers.

  2. BlytheRubbings says:

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    o YIKES!!!!!!!! Sure wouldn’t want that on my lap.

    BTW: What’s the deal with these megasized “note book” computers
    that are very hard to carry around/use these days. :\

  3. [...] like to say this is the year of the exploding battery, but it’s already 2007 and the Sony fiasco is yesteryear’s news. Fortunately (no I am not trying to make light of the situation…well [...]

  4. [...] like to say this is the year of the exploding battery, but it’s already 2007 and the Sony fiasco is yesteryear’s news. Fortunately (no I am not trying to make light of the situation…well [...]

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