The recall centers on a design flaw in batteries
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The recall centers on a design flaw in batteries incorporated in Inspiron 5000 and 5000(e) notebooks, according to sources. The flaw resides in the battery packaging and can cause the notebooks to overheat, sources said. To date, one notebook has caught fire because of the problem, prompting the recall. Panasonic manufactured the batteries.The models came to the market in January 2000 and were retired in March 2001. The flawed 448007-001 Battery are found in some, but not all, Inspiron 5000s.
The report doesn’t specify how many hours make up a whole-day’s worth of PPX Battery life (12 hours? 24 hours?). It must be more than 8 hours, which is the outside estimate Asus claims the six-cell battery will last its Eee PC 1000. (With an SSD drive, the Eee PC 901 ran for 5 hours 15 minutes in CNET Labs.) Lastly, despite Asus rapidly introducing 7-, 9-, and 10-inch Eee PC models, the DigiTimes reports that “the company will also push out software and hardware upgrades every month to fill gaps in the Netbook market.”
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But Boeing, which has hailed the 787 as a “game changer” for the airline industry, said it still expected the program to be profitable.Lighter and more fuel-efficient than other airplanes, the Dreamliner is Boeing’s first major new airplane in a decade and the most popular program in the PCGA-BP2E Batterycompany’s history, with more than 800 orders waiting to be filled. But its production has been plagued by delays stemming from supply problems, a labor strike, parts shortages and structural flaws.