I was reading about another battery recall yesterday (IBM/Lenovo). Today I was reading about another recall for batteries in Toshiba laptops. This time it’s about 800,000 batteries.
There’s a short notice up on Toshiba.ca’s website. Affected laptops (this time) are Satellite R10/R20/U200/A50 and SatellitePro U200.
Or, as Sony says (in this official announcement), lets just replace them all!
As we have previously explained, on rare occasions, microscopic metal particles in the recalled battery cells may come into contact with other parts of the battery cell, leading to a possibility of short circuit within the cell. Typically, a battery pack will simply power off when a cell short circuit occurs. However, under certain rare conditions an internal short circuit may lead to cell overheating and potentially flames. The potential for this to occur can be affected by variations in the system configurations found in different notebook computers. Sony believes that this engineering analysis remains valid.
The good news is that, while the battery replacement may cost Sony quite a bit money, they’ll be making enough money whenever the PS3 hits the market! Wait, I mean, they’ll make more losses.