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Information Technology News Battery problems resurface with Acer recall
Information Technology News Battery problems resurface with Acer recall | Battery problems resurface with Acer recall |
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| Written by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 26 April 2007 | |
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Acer has published North American details at a dedicated web site and for other countries advises owners of its notebooks to call their local support line to find out if replacement is necessary. With just 27,000 units involved, this recall is small scale. Other manufacturers using Sony batteries previously recalled millions of batteries - Dell alone recalled more than four million. Other affected brands included Apple, Lenovo and Toshiba. The faulty batteries can overheat, and on rare occasions this may cause a fire. This led to some airlines banning the inflight use of notebooks from manufacturers that had issued recalls.{moscomment}
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