Gateway Recalls 35,000 Sony Made Batteries

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Gateway issued a voluntary recall of about 35,000 batteries included with notebooks that were shipped through the firm's direct, professional and retail channels. According to the company, the batteries affected were built by Sony and can overheat and create a potential fire hazard.

Gateway is just the latest notebook manufacturer that has had to recall the batteries: In recent weeks, Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM, Fujitsu and Hitachi have recalled more than 7.5 million notebooks. Sony estimates that the tally will end up at a total of 9.6 million recalled batteries, which will cost the company about $430 million.

Gateway said that the affected batteries were offered as the primary or spare battery with the models CX200, CX210, E100M, M250, M255, M280, M285, M465, M685, MP8708, NX260, NX510, NX560, NX860, NX100, MX1025, MX6918b and MX1020j.

If you are an affected customer visit Gateway.com at the following url for further details: http://www.gateway.com/battery/index.shtml

 

dam that sucks.. but finally some1 slaps sony in the face.. i luv sony but they so god damin expensive rip offs sony vaios are just cool looking, sleek, and play blu ray and burn hd.. big deal!