Computer-maker Gateway has just launched a voluntary recall of around 14,000 lithium ion battery packs that were sold with certain Gateway notebooks. According to the company, these batteries have the potential to be a fire hazard.
The warning has been issued for those battery packs that were shipped as the primary or spare battery pack for the gateway 400VTX and 450ROG series notebooks that were sold from May 2003 to August 2003.
I'd feel safer plugging any laptop, any battery charger into a power strip that would cut off if the battery overheats or the charger begins smoking.
No comments:
Post a Comment