RSSAcer Recalls 27,000 Sony Laptop Batteries
By Ed Oswald | Published April 26, 2007, 11:27 AM
Thought Sony's battery recall woes were over? Think again. Acer has announced a voluntary recall of 27,000 batteries made by the company over short-circuiting and fire concerns.
According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Acer, 16 reports of overheating batteries have already been received, though none of them were in Acer laptops themselves. The recall affects batteries within TravelMate PCs produced between May 2004 and September 2006.
Also affected are several models of its Aspire line. The laptops would have been sold through Acer distributors and at retail. The Battery pack numbers affected include BT00604001, BT00804016, BT00604005, BT00807010, BT00604002, BT00804011, and BTT4807001. Certain "week codes" are affected within these serial numbers, so users should check the Acer website.
The company is advising customers stop using the at-risk batteries immediately and contact the company for a free replacement. A website has been set up by Acer to field those requests. A toll-free number has also been set up for this purpose: 1-800-503-2330.
"In the meantime, customers may continue to use their notebook PCs by turning off the system, removing the battery, and powering the system via AC adapter and power cord, until the replacement battery is received," the company said in a statement.
Sony should get out of the battery business completely or it will burn them :)
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Where's Dave? He can spin this.
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After e-mailling, Acer Europe - they don't use these explosive Sony batteries, really should be on their homepage!
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Slightly off topic but... I remember back in the day the brand name Sony had a positive connotation to it. Today when ever I hear someone say I bought a Sony (xyz) I cringe knowing that their money was wasted on an overpriced substandard piece of merchandise.
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Indeed. Nowadays, "Sony" is a synonym for "overpriced crap".
They do just as badly with their worthless proprietary formats, churning out one failure after the next. MiniDisc flundered badly, Umd failed just as badly - trying to push it with the Psp didn't help, as it's doing poorly, and having learned nothing from this, they are now trying to push Blu-Ray with the PS3 (the pinnacle of overpriced crap), which is going to be the next Beta-Max, as it's massively outsold by HD-Dvd (especially here in Europe) Perhapy we should call it Beta-Ray now, or Blue-Max.
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I agree, SONY has deteoriated over the past few years. I mean their TV's were awesome, I must say Samsung has stolen that award. I had their first slim laptop 10 years ago and I know it got VERY HOT. I had gone through 2 batteries then.
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"According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Acer, 16 reports of overheating batteries have already been received, though none of them were in Acer laptops themselves."
Hmm - let's see - who is really going to be hurt by this recall? Acer??? Nope - it's going to hit Sony.
Hmm - who competes for laptop sales with Acer..... Let me think..... Starts with an "S" - .... Oh yeah - SONY!
I'm wondering if there is really a problem here or if Acer is trying to hammer another nail in Sony's coffin?
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A bit late to the party, but they finally got there! ;-)
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lmao...
Yeah, I think they missed being fashionably late some time ago.
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