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Dell this week announced that it would recall 4.1 million laptop batteries Toshiba Tecra 8100 Battery because these batteries may overheat and even cause a fire. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said it is the consumer electronics industry, the largest in history, a recall. Prior to this, many incidents have successively Dell laptop fire incident. Market research firm Current Analysis analyst Samgba Nani (Sam Bhavnani), said: "Dell notebook battery recall incident to the entire notebook industry wake-up call."
Watch video using a laptop Toshiba Tecra 9000 Battery or perform other tasks has gradually become a trend, in order to attract more users, laptop manufacturers began to pursue the production of smaller, but more powerful products. However, the greater the intensity of work notebook, the greater the processor's heat, thereby increasing the risk of overheating notebook. In this case, if the existence of cracks in the shell of notebook batteries, and of which the material leakage, it is very likely to catch fire. This year in June, a meeting held in Japan on a Dell laptop suddenly caught fire, but fortunately no casualties. After this Toshiba Tecra 9100 Battery incident, related photos immediately posted on the Internet, attracted industry attention.

In the pursuit of fashion at the same time, notebook manufacturers are not up and down too much in the design effort. On the contrary, notebook manufacturers are bent on narrowing the size of notebook computers, but not the hardware's technical limitations into account. Info-Tech Research Group analyst Kamilaiwei (Carmi Levi) said: "The notebook makers should be designed for thermal management in notebook the most important position." Bhavnani also agree with that, he said: "notebook Toshiba Satellite 1900 Battery manufacturers thermal management, emphasis should be far from level. "

In fact, the laptop battery overheating problem does not occur only in the Dell notebook, Dell's main rival Hewlett-Packard and Apple are also facing similar problems. Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering (Leslie Fiering), said: "Maybe other notebook manufacturers will exaggerate the Dell notebook battery recall incident, and hoped that profit. But in fact, all laptop battery manufacturers are more or less there are certain problems. Dell will not be the last one to recall laptop battery manufacturers in the coming months there will be more similar incidents. It is a common problem Toshiba Satellite A60-662 Battery in the industry. "