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Acer Recalls 22,000 Notebooks Due To Burn Hazard

Posted by Soulskill on from the hot-product dept.

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."

3 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. 3 Cases - already a recall? by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That means they could duplicate it rather easily.

    If you've got one of those notebooks, DEFINATELY return it.

  2. Aviran's place is fishy by Simon80 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The last article on aviransplace.com (Windows GodMode features) was copied from CNet. Slashdot could have found a less ad-laden website to send traffic to this time around.

  3. More Stolen Content by lemur3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This website gets posted front page again ?

    The content is from: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10103.html

    lame!