will my notebook catch on fire?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060815/tc_nm/dell_batteries_dc_13

they seem to go to great lengths to blame sony

 

Umm cuz sony is the manufacturer of those batteries? If not sony then who? The battery fairy for effing up the batteries?

 

yeah but are they the same as in my SZ and are they dangerous also. the macbooks are flaming up also

 

true but it is always the battery it how\where the manufatures instal the battery macbooks have had a hard time with 'flare ups'

 

Isn't the battery in the SZ totally different from the ones in the Dell???

 

You know, just because Sony makes one series of batteries that require a recall doesn't mean that all Sony batteries are bad. If any other Sony-manufactured batteries need to be recalled, the other companies who are affected will issue recalls (I know Apple did a battery recall earlier for some MBP batteries, but I don't know who made them).

Just because you have a Sony-made battery doesn't mean you have to worry.

 

I haven't heard of any problems with the MacBooks catching fire. There were some issues where some older PowerBooks had caught on fire (and these were from people who continued using faulty batteries after the recall). The MacBook Pro battery issue had to do with a "swelling battery" issue, which was something different. So that was the source of the MacBook Pro battery recall.

To date I don't think there have been any specific issues with the MacBook batteries.

-Zadillo

 

Doesn't dell give sony the specs for their batteries and sony just makes them?

 

lol did sony make the dell batteries carelessly or is there a possiblity our sony batteries be recalled also.

 

Possibly, although either way, no-one is claiming there was a fault in the design or specs of the batteries; this was caused by a manufacturing defect while they were being put together.