Monday, August 14, 2006

Dell laptop battery recall

Dell has recalled a large number of laptop batteries. It turns out they have a number of batches of them made by Sony that could burst into flames. Not a good thing if it's sitting in your lap.

If you search hard enough, you can find the little tiny link to their recall page. Neither of my batteries are in the recall, although that might be the only way for me to ensure that they are both charged at the same time, just send them back to Dell.

Here's my public service announcement:

If you are reading this on a Dell laptop, stop right now, pull the battery out, and go to the site to see if you are part of the recall.

Ok, so if you are reading this still, one of several things has happened:
  1. You are not using a Dell laptop
  2. You had the machine on A/C power, so that it didn't shut down, you have looked, and are back
  3. You didn't listen to me
If your answer was #3, stop right now, pull the battery out, and go to the site to see if you are part of the recall.

End of Public Service Announcement

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