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Dell Recalls Millions of AC Adaptors
matgyver writes "Both CNET and CNN are reporting that Dell is recalling 4.4 million AC adapters worldwide. About 990,000 of those were sold to US consumers, 1.5 million to US businesses, and the rest where outside the US. The adapters were sold with laptops between 1998 and 2002 and included Dell's Latitude, Inspiron, and Precision laptops. The part numbers for the adapters are 9364U, 7832D and 4983D. Apparently the adapters run the risk of overheating and can be a fire and electrocution risk."
Made in China... Were those cheap China parts really cheaper than the American made ones? "Made in China" is a synonym for little or no quality control. But they were cheaper weren't they?
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If this were Apple, people would threaten and sue, people would scream and cry, people would talk about how shoddy Apple stuff is.
Gotta love Slashdot.
I guess *anyone* who makes things or sells things can have a few bad lots come through the pipeline. Even flu shot manufacturers....
As a side note, this affects 9 out of 10 of the power bricks in our company... Pretty big deal...
Dude, you make it sound like IBM makes good hardware. But, in fact, hate my Stinkpad. Apparently, there's an astonishingly failure rate on the T30 mainboards. And we can't forget about IBM's 75GXP failure fun.
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