Wednesday, June 20th 2007
Battery recall continues
After the well known Sony notebook battery issues sparked off worries among numerous companies last year, the problems aren't over yet, with Gateway having it's second recall in under a year. The notebook maker has now announced that it is to recall a further 14,000 batteries - on top of the 35,000 Sony batteries it recalled in October. This time round the batteries for the 400VTX and 450ROG laptops manufactured between May and July 2003 are to be replaced, with the battery model numbers being 6500760 and 6500761 respectively. If you suspect you may be affected by this, visit this Gateway site to find further instructions.
Source:
Reg Hardware
14 Comments on Battery recall continues
Duracell FTW
Whats that? :wtf:
Don't let a recall scare you. It's not like every single one is going to catch fire or something. It's a precaution. If you need a laptop, get one. Go with Dell or HP instead of Gateway for now. :D
Why?
Because they've "isolated" the problematic batterys are should have them away from being sent into public use.
If a company doesn't do this they'd likely be fined pretty heavily by a government org.
How do I know this?
I work in a company and see how they handle defects -personally- ;)
And I'd say buying from HP/dell are likely to get you into the NEXT batch of defective batterys, rather. :roll:
Id go with Toshiba or HP. Toshiba has this awesome laptop screen and its just bad ass. The one Id like to get can have a graphics card added for some decent gaming !
We all need to go live in cardboard boxes!
Also, there was this department store on fire..
so we musn't continue to shop!
IT IS VITAL TO STAYIN ALIEEEV!!!11111
1 out of 15 million laptops.
Yeah, Id say you got some nice chances there.
I however will proceed to take my chances with this revolver and single bullet...
**SPIN**
**BANG**
Ok, I've had like nothing to do all day.