Toshiba burn risk recall on certain notebooks

[PrntRhd]

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/bulletin.jsp?ct=SB&soid=2761378&ref=EV
The defective harness may, in some circumstances, overheat to the point of melting the computer's base at the location where the AC adaptor plugs into the unit.

[Whyzman]

The BIOS can be downloaded by clicking on the following hot link:Hot laptops and hot links...bringing the tropics to Minnesota in the winter months!

I think they ought to warn folks about wearing polyester pants whilst using one of these...references to melting bespeak of bonding...:eek:

[bristol]

OMG! I knew that there was a fire hazard in general with laptops, but nothing like this. I will defintiely pass the news around