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Toshiba recalls 41,000 Satellite laptops

Erica Ogg, CNET News | September 2, 2010 1:39 PM PDT

Summary

The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall after reports of some overheating and even melting.

Topics

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Satellite, Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday issued a recall of 41,000 Toshiba laptops after reports of some overheating and even melting.

Toshiba posted its own recall of several models of its Satellite T130 laptops on its product support forums last week.

The CPSC said 129 instances of "overheating and deforming the plastic casing area around the AC adapter plug" had been reported. Two of those reports resulted in "minor burn injuries that did not require medical attention" and two in minor property damage.

For more of this story, read Toshiba recalls 41,000 laptops for overheating on CNET News.

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