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Sony doesn’t want you to have children

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 6:07PM EST
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Sony has just announced its latest line of laptop batteries, engineered exclusively for masochists. Wait, no, don’t get excited. It looks like it was just an accident that Sony’s notebook batteries have been melting on people’s laps. Back to the shadows of society you go, you crazy deviants. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has decided to recall approximately 35,000 laptop batteries after reports from 19 people that their lappys got a bit too hot to handle. 17 of the 19 reported that their computers actually caught fire and two of them even suffered burns as a result. The affected batteries have shipped out in various manufacturer models including Dell, Toshiba and HP notebooks. Sony, buddy, what’s going on here? The world has been having some serious battery shortages lately and you’re off frying people’s thighs. Not cool. Sony also issued a major recall for similar reasons last month, affecting about 438,000 laptops around the world. Now this. It might not be a bad idea to start checking the battery make on potential notebook purchases from here on out… Hit the jump to find out if there’s a chance your laptop might try to stop you from reproducing, and for recall info if you plan to thwart it.

Hewlett-Packard

  • dv1000
  • dv8000
  • zd8000

Compaq Presario:

  • v2000 and v2400

HP Compaq:

  • nc6110, 6120, 6140, 6220, 6230
  • nx4800, 4820, 6110, 6120, 9600

Toshiba Satellite:

  • A70/A75
  • P30/P5
  • M30X/M35X
  • M50/M55
  • ecra:
  • A3, A5, S2

Dell

  • Latitude 110L
  • Inspiron: 1100, 1150, 5100, 5150, 5160

Consumer Contacts:

Hewlett-Packard
(800)889-2031
http://www.hp.com/support/BatteryReplacement

Toshiba
(800) 457-7777
http://www.bxinfo.toshiba.com

Dell
(866) 342-0011
http://www.dellbatteryprogram.com

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