Acer Recalls 22,000 Notebooks Due To Burn Hazard

An anonymous reader writes "The US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Acer, today announced a voluntary recall of 22,000 notebook computers. Acer has received three reports of computers short circuiting, resulting in slight melting of the external casing. No incidents occurred in the United States. No injuries have been reported."

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Re:Digital mics

[dgatwood]

Acer uses digital microphones

Uh... what? A microphone, by definition, is an analog device. Please refer to this properly as a single-chip microphone and digital encoder package. No, I'm not just being pedantic. Twenty years of Sony and others selling "digital" headphones has made me a stickler for the proper use of the word "digital". :-)