Packard Bell issues Euro battery recall

Robert Hallock 9 Dec, 2009 at 1:00pm ET Article published in Tech

Following scattered reports of overheating and fires, Packard Bell has today issued a voluntary recall notice on four units in its Easynote line.

The affected models include: MX36, MX37, MX51 and MX52 units sold mainly in Europe between July and December of 2007.

Packard Bell blames the issues on internal short circuits and advises concerned customers to check their notebook at the company’s website. The company also stressed that no North American units are affected at this time.

Comments

9 Dec 2009 ~ 2:39pm djmeph Packard Bell is still in business?
9 Dec 2009 ~ 2:51pm photodude Wow, I never thought I would hear that brand name again after the messy bankruptcy they had back sometime around y2k.

Packbell was big in my area since there was a tech call center here. I even got my first tech cert through packbell as an ISST (1999 equivalent of A+ with some cross over with CNA)

But it seems packbell still has the same issues they had a decade ago with power and switch issues, internal shorts and less then helpful customer service and tech support.

Still shocked to hear the brand name again.
9 Dec 2009 ~ 2:53pm Thrax Packard Bell has been operating in the EU under Acer's control for quite some time.
9 Dec 2009 ~ 3:08pm photodude Wow, just looked at the whole Acer brand ownership thing....Acer owns eMachines, Gateway, and Packard Bell among others. Guess just finding out about this what I get for not caring about or following most brands. looks like Packard bell is big in China too...

back to the article focus....got to love the fire burning laptops
9 Dec 2009 ~ 3:11pm bindlestick I HATE PACKARD BELL.
9 Dec 2009 ~ 3:16pm Grimnoc I HATE TACO BELL, or do I?
9 Dec 2009 ~ 4:35pm Annes

bindlestick wrote:

I HATE PACKARD BELL.

Down boy! Why do you hate them so much? Or is this some meme I've missed?
9 Dec 2009 ~ 4:36pm Thrax

Grimnoc wrote:

I HATE TACO BELL, or do I?

Son, in a den of lions, one ought not smell of steak.
9 Dec 2009 ~ 7:55pm bindlestick

Annes wrote:

Down boy! Why do you hate them so much? Or is this some meme I've missed?

Christmas '95 I believe it was. One of our christmas gifts was a new family pc...a Pack Bell. New pc, windows 95, all this good stuff. My only real memories of it were my dad spending countless nights huddle over it troubleshooting a hard drive plagued by bad sectors and a mother board that didn't last more than a year.

Then just when you get it to the shop get it fixed, pack bell goes bankrupt, no surprise. Pieces of junk. Scarred my childhood. It's a wonder that I still got into computers after that.

This list maybe be inaccurate, but they nailed the #1 worst PC of all time.
9 Dec 2009 ~ 8:58pm Tim Packard Bell made Pentium 2 computers, and computers older than that. I wasn't aware they made anything newer than that. Their name doesn't sound like something you'd see on a high performance gaming PC.
6 Jan 2010 ~ 12:14am BAGUS Agree...