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(Source: Sydney Morning Herald)

This is painful alright - to customers, Dell, Apple and even Sony. Virgin Atlantic recently announced that all Dell and Apple laptop batteries would be barred from usage in-flight. This means that unless the seat you’re in has “In Seat Power Supplies” (ISPS), you’ll have to dump your notebook batteries in your checked-in luggage.

One wonders whether other airlines will follow suit. After all, we’re talking about a multi-million unit battery recall (you might remember that Dell alone recalled 4.1 million batteries) - which will for sure take quite a while to complete.

FYI, if you own a Dell laptop, check out the website dedicated to the recall to see whether your laptop batteries are affected.

[News via The Mac Observer]

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