Dell & Toshiba Recall More Laptop Batteries

Laptop manufactures Dell and Toshiba have expanded their recall of laptop batteries made by Sony. Friday, Dell announced that it will recall an additional 100,000 Sony-made laptop batteries. That brings the total number to 4.2 million recalled by Dell alone.

Toshiba increased its laptop battery recall to more than 800,000.

This has been a bad year for laptops and their batteries. Thursday, Lenovo recalled more than 500,000 Sony-made battery packs for several models of ThinkPad notebooks. Additionally, last month Apple issued a recall and exchange program for 1.8 million Sony notebook batteries.

To check and see if you Dell laptop battery is impacted by this recall, visit Dell’s Laptop battery website for affected models and what to do if yours is one of them.

Keep in mind, this latest recall could even affect replacemet batteries already shipped as recently as July 18, 2006. So, you better check if in doubt.