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Toshiba recalls laptops due to fire hazard

  • Middle East: Sunday, September 05 - 2010 at 11:42

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has said that Toshiba has recalled 41,000 laptop computers worldwide because of a fire risk, AFP has reported. The computers involved are the Satellite T135, Satellite T135D and Satellite ProT130. The commission said that Toshiba has received 129 reports of the computers overheating and deforming the plastic casing area around the AC adapter plug. Toshiba offered a software program for download at laptops.toshiba.com/about/consumer-notices that detects whether the computer is overheating and disables its external power.

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