Dell Laptop Battery Recall

[Dio]

Have y'all heard about the massive laptop battery recall Dell has issued? I've never had a problem in the world with my Latitude d410, then all of a sudden my boss at work tells me my laptop might suddenly explode if it gets too hot and I need to return my battery!!

 

Now I'm batteryless until my replacement arrives in somewhere from 20-75 business days...just...friggen... great. I need to be mobile for both my job AND school which is about to start. What a piss off. I hate being stuck to a plug >_>

 

I'm not sure whether I should be laughing or crying. Anyone else affected here?

 

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angrydio

[Jay]

It's been in the news for the last couple of days. Here is a link to news item about it if you want more info.

[JamesSavik]

Now I'm batteryless until my replacement arrives in somewhere from 20-75 business days...just...friggen... great. I need to be mobile for both my job AND school which is about to start. What a piss off. I hate being stuck to a plug >_>

 

 

Dio-

 

20-75 dys? That's just not reasonable. I suggest that you find a battery seller and order yourself another battery. Duracell makes very good replacement batteries for most of the big PC makers like HP, Dell and IBM.

 

There is a company in my town called Interstate Battery that I used to deal with all the time for replacemt batteries for laptops, UPSs and all sort of gadgets that I had to take care of. I could usually get one from 60-100 bucks.

 

If you go that way, when the Dell battery finally arrives, you'll have a backup.

 

JS

[Tim-n-NC]

If you haven't already sent yours in, you might consider waiting for the flood to slow down. I imagine they'll provide appreciably faster turnaround in a couple of months after the rush and I doubt the risk is very significant. This isn't the first Li-ion battery scare, and in the past it's always been a few hi-profile incidents out of tens or hundreds of thousands of shipped units that prompted a recall.

 

Still, not sure I'd use it with it sitting in my lap with a suspect battery -might damage something far more valuable than a notebook!

 

If you've already sent it, though, I agree with JS that it's nice to have a second battery -especially for those transcontinental flights.

 

Looks like plenty of new batts for the d410 going for ~$50 on eBay, with used at ~$25 +ship.

Best deal might be to buy a used one eligible for the recall off eBay, use it till original replacement arrives, then have eBay unit replaced with new one, too.

 

http://computers.listings.ebay.com/Batteri...ListingItemList

 

I've bought 5-6 notebook batts off eBay without problem.

 

Good luck back at school this fall!

-Tim

[Eddy]

I went to the Dell website last Monday and signed uo for my replacement -- I was amazed when it showed up via DHL yesterday complete with prepaid return lable ----- WAY KEWL

 

Have y'all heard about the massive laptop battery recall Dell has issued? I've never had a problem in the world with my Latitude d410, then all of a sudden my boss at work tells me my laptop might suddenly explode if it gets too hot and I need to return my battery!!

 

Now I'm batteryless until my replacement arrives in somewhere from 20-75 business

angrydio

 

I'm not sure if you should worry to much about the battery going up in smoke -- as I remember from Dell's website that less than a dozen of the batteries under the recall have actually burned. And that is with 4.1 million batteries in the total recall.

[Masked Monkey]

Still, not sure I'd use it with it sitting in my lap with a suspect battery -might damage something far more valuable than a notebook!

 

-Tim

 

That assumes you have something more valuable than a notebook

 

:king: Snow Dog

 

Edit: Woohooo my battery is not involved

Edited August 19, 2006 by Snow Dog

[rknapp]

Neither is mine!

 

+1 for Chinese child workers! (LOL)