Dell anyone?
You must have my recent entry about Laptops HERE. If you own any of the following Dell Laptop model:
Latitude: D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810
Inspiron: 500M, 510M, 600M, 700M, 710M, 6000, 6400, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, E1505, E1705
Precision: M20, M60, M70, M90
XPS: XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170, XPS M1710
And the laptop was shipped to you between “April 1, 2004 and July 18, 2006″ then you better hurry up and check Dell Battery Program Official Website and see the instructions. Well do check it in anycase, you might be having the defective battery shipped seperately to you. Chances might be your battery is effected. Just follow the site’s instructions and I am sure it would go smoothly. According to NEWS:
Dell and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission plan to recall 4.1 million notebook batteries on Tuesday, a company representative confirmed Monday.
Dell has faced several issues this year related to exploding or flaming notebooks, and wants to ensure the safety of its customers, the representative said. The 4.1 million units is a subset of the 22 million units shipped during that time frame, he said. Dell said it doesn’t expect the cost of the recall to materially affect its earnings. The company reports earnings for the previous quarter this Thursday.
At the moment, this looks like the largest battery recall in the history of the electronics industry, said Roger Kay, an analyst with Endpoint Technologies Associates. “The scale of it is phenomenal.”
It surely seems the largest ever. They better do it, lol, else people will start suing them badly. Some only need a slight go ahead for suing big companies. So if you own a Dell Laptop just go to the Dell Battery Program Official Website and check things around. Well, if I were you, I would visit it anyways, even if I had no laptop mentioned in the list above. You never know! LOL. The people who bought laptop not more recently, I mean to say like in 2004 and 2005. They are the lucky ones. How? Batteries usually get lower with passage of time and use. So they can get a brand new battery now for free. LOL.
So if you got Dell, do check out and pray for me if you get the replacement :p.
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I don’t have a Dell, so don’t need to worry :D
mujhe dell chahiye!!!i wonder when i m gonna get it..i think on my 18th b’day..hey!do u kno some stupid fella told me that he is gonna send me some bag..funny ppl r!!they say so many things n then let it slip off their mind!h.o.w. r.u.d.e!
will check this soon insh’Allah…
sheesh…Dell :dry:
@ Riju: Well, your bday is coming near so you should be happy then. Oh yeah, such stupid fellas do exist. You should start learning how to kick :p.
@ Awaiting the Noor: LOL, yeah. But there’s a strange thing for which you should be happy. Not all batteries models on their site are effected, like selected ones in the battery models are. That’s sort of strange to me. My bro have got this battery model which on Dell’s site is effected but when you enter it ID, it says No replacement needed!