Dell battery recall
dylan
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Anyone else out there in IT land dealing with this? Its a pain. Our company has over 250+ possibly bad batteries. I guess they've -only- had 7 fires, and are recalling approx. 4.1 million batteries.
Anyway, if you have a Dell laptop, you may want to check here:
Identify your battery
Dude, your laptop is on fire
Anyway, if you have a Dell laptop, you may want to check here:
Identify your battery
Dude, your laptop is on fire
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man... SEC probe, exploding laptops. Dell has been in the crapper lately, I almost feel sorry for them
At least they are going to start selling AMD desktops soon
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The batteries are made for Dell by Sony. Sony will take the hit.polkaudio SRS (rdo194 x 8)
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Dell's stock price has already taken the hit. The average Joe isn't going to care who made the battery, the name on the cover of the laptop says Dell and its Dell's 1-800 they are going to have to call.
Does Dell actually "make" anything? They just source all the components, put it together, and slap a Dell logo on it. -
I'm not so sure Sony will take a hit. They're the same cells IBM/ Lenovo uses (like in a T60), and they don't have the issue. Yet, anyway.
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Maybe so but they (Dell) are not buying 4 million more batteries alone.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126749-page,1/article.html?RSS=RSSpolkaudio SRS (rdo194 x 8)
Dodd ELP (separate power supply)
JC 1 blocks ( strapped )
Rega Apollo
MIT (speaker cables) Outlaw (ICs)
polkaudio SDA2(rdo194x4) (front) polkaudio CRS (rdo194x4)(rear) polkaudio 400i (center)
B&K 505
Samsung LCD
VIP 622
HSU STF-2 -
That's a good article. It does look like the Sony name will be more involved than I thought. It boils down to a pain in my day...
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We're making plans for replacement here at my company. I suspect around 200.No excuses!
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I've got 3 Dell laptops. One is affected and the other 2 are not. Already on the list for a replacement. I don't blame Dell, Sony is the one that screwed up."Just because youre offended doesnt mean youre right." - Ricky Gervais
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson -
Sony can't afford anymore hits against them.
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Noone really screwed up if the failure rate is above the Six Sigma standards did they? It looks like they need a failsafe shutdown for shorting since the flaw can't be totally eliminated in manufacturing. Batteries are a danger by nature.
Dell is truly standing up for what is right on this one.HT Optoma HD25 LV on 80" DIY Screen, Anthem MRX 300 Receiver, Pioneer Elite BDP 51FD Polk CS350LS, Polk SDA1C, Polk FX300, Polk RT55, Dual EBS Adire Shiva 320watt tuned to 17hz, ICs-DIY Twisted Prs, Speaker-Raymond Cable
2 Channel Thorens TD 318 Grado ZF1, SACD/CD Marantz 8260, Soundstream/Krell DAC1, Audio Mirror PP1, Odyssey Stratos, ADS L-1290, ICs-DIY Twisted , Speaker-Raymond Cable -
Hard to avoid bad press when there are pictures like this floating around:
<img src=http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/explosion_dcrop1.jpg></img>
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