C4 Battery
Last night Bunky frantically called me to tell me to check out the battery on her Dell Laptop. Why? Because apparently the battery can overheat and combust.
The recall is the biggest in the history of the consumer electronics industry, The Times reported this morning.
Analysts have estimated the recall could cost more than $300 million and expect at least a portion of the cost to be shouldered by Dell.
I heard that Sony will shoulder the other half of the burden. Boy, their hardware sure isn’t having much luck these days. Anyway, go to www.dellbatteryprogram.com to see if your crappy Dell’s laptop battery has also been recalled.
Personally, I’m excited. Batteries give out with time, as the number of charges is limited, and Bunky’s laptop battery has been sucking lately. Soon she will have replaced the battery and the keyboard for free, all within the last 6 months. My hope is that she will give in to her desire for a desktop (so she can play Sims 2 on a computer with a real video card), and I can annex her laptop to install Ubuntu on it.
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By Chris, 08/16/2006 @ 2:45 am
I suspect the Sony/BMG rootkit has a function to detonate these batteries. They are just destroying evidence. Don’t be fooled!
By Kabitzin, 08/17/2006 @ 8:35 am
Hmmm, destroy it by fire… not a bad idea!
By Chris, 08/18/2006 @ 10:57 am
I wonder what does Windows show when your battery explodes?
“Abort, retry, fail?”
Or rather:
“Your hardware configuration has changed. Do you want to register your copy of Windows now or later?”