causing a fire that damaged the notebook computer

Calendar December 18, 2009 | Posted by admin

Information technology departments are faced with the prospect of testing — and potentially having to swap out — the batteries of hundreds or thousands of notebooks.But the many innovations in the XO may also end up changing the world of technology.

When you first see the XO, the thought that immediately jumps to mind is “kid’s toy.”With its bright green color, built-in carrying handle, funny rabbit ears and rubber membrane keyboard, it looks like something that Fisher-Price might produce.

Toshiba is replacing a total 10,000 battery packs after three of its laptop PCs using HP Mini 1000 Battery cells made on December 3, 2005 caught fire in the last 10 months. No one was hurt in the incidents.

The move preceded a recall by Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) Thursday of 1.8 million Sony-built laptop batteries that could overheat and catch fire.

Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has received nine reports of the lithium-ion batteries HP Pavilion DV4 Battery packs overheating, including two consumers who received minor burns after handling overheated computers. Apple has also received reports of minor property damage, but no serious injuries have been reported.

Round Rock-based Dell negotiated conditions of the recall with the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, which called it the largest electronics-related recall HP Compaq NC6120 Battery ever involving the agency.A Dell spokesman said Monday that the Sony batteries were placed in notebooks that were shipped between April 1, 2004, and July 18 of this year.

The recall of the batteries for Let’s Note CF-W4G notebook PCs only affects Japan, said company spokesman Akira Kadota.Kadota said the Sony VGP-BPS2A/S Battery were not made by Sony Corp. (SNE), whose faulty batteries were involved in far larger recalls by Dell Inc. (DELL) and Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) last month, but he declined to say who made the batteries, citing an agreement with the manufacturer.

My 7-year-old daughter was right to be concerned. She was about to pour a full 8-ounce glass of water directly onto the keyboard of a $2,000 laptop.

She slowly dumped the water onto the keyboard and watched as it ran straight through the body of the GammaTech Durabook Pro D15RP, dripping out Sony VGP-BPS2A Battery the bottom and into the sink below.

In the latest recall, Lenovo cited a potential risk following one confirmed report of a Sony battery overheating and causing a fire that damaged the notebook computer.

The XO-1’s Internet Browser is a highly customized version of Mozilla Firefox. It supports Flash- and Ajax-based sites such as YouTube and Google Maps; performance is sluggish Sony VGP-BPS2 Battery but usable.Word-processing performance and general browsing was as fast as you’d expect on a smartphone, which is to say fast enough.

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