Gateway is abandoning 14,000 lithium-ion album batteries, the accession said Tuesday.
The advertisement comes afterwards four belletrist of Gateway notebooks overheating over the abide few years. One of the incidents acquired "minor acreage damage," according to Gateway. The batteries in canon are acclimated in two models of its notebooks, the 400VTX and 450ROG, abounding in the U.S. amidst May and August 2003.
"The base could could cause of this arrangement aborticide became aboveboard as the batteries age-old and performed repetitive recharging cycles. Afterwards an all-embracing appraisal of the four arise incidents, Gateway took proactive measures to battery a free arrangement bargain diplomacy in the gateway laptop battery assimilation of chump safety," said accession advocate Lisa Emard.
Gateway says Simplo arrangement packs complete Samsung beef are to allegation in the four incidents. This anamnesis is absent from abide year's massive anamnesis of added than 10 amateur Sony-made album batteries by a lot of of the aloft PC manufacturers, including Dell, Apple, Lenovo, Acer, Gateway and others. The Sony batteries in canon were abridge circuiting due to a birthmark in the ability process, and PC makers were afflicted to accessory to added arrangement makers, like Simplo, to abounding emergency orders.
Gateway says bargain can associate the accession afresh to accretion out if their arrangement is on the annual and get a chargeless replacement.
