Stories of exploding Dell laptops have been doing the rounds online for a while now, but the company has finally admitted a serious defect by recalling more than 4 million laptop batteries.
More than a million of the batteries are thought to have been sold outside the US, although figures for the number sold in the UK and Ireland were not immediately available.
The Dell-branded batteries were used in laptops supplied between April 1, 2004, and July 18, 2006, the company said.
They were sold either separately or with Dell Latitude, Inspiron, XPS and Dell Precision Mobile Workstation laptop computers.
The words Dell and "Made in Japan" or "Made in China" or "Battery cell made in Japan, Assembled in China" are printed on the back of the batteries.
Looks like it's time to have a look inside your computer.
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