IBM Recalls 553,000 Laptop Power Units

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IBM Recalls 553,000 Laptop Power Units

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 2, 2004 @10:51AM from the if-apple-can-do-it dept.

qewl writes "The 56-watt adapters can overheat, cause damage to the circuit board and melt through the case, the company and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. About 225,000 of the adapters are being recalled in the United states. The power adapters were shipped mostly with IBM ThinkPad i Series, ThinkPad 390 and 240 Series and a limited number of ThinkPad s Series laptop computers and have the part number 02K6549, the agency said."

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woah by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-02 10:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Looks like IBM has been working a little too closely with Apple.. it's starting to rub off on them.
1. Re:woah by evilviper · 2004-09-02 11:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Apple and IBM's problems are nothing. It's Dell that is the reining "inferno" king.
  
  Monitors, Desktops, Notebooks, batteries, power supplies. If you can name it, Dell has made it, and it's caught on fire...
  
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2. Re:woah by slipnslidemaster · 2004-09-02 11:19 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeah you really need to watch out for the Dell Pinto.
  
  *BOOM!!!!*
  
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I felt... by Mateito · 2004-09-02 10:55 · Score: 3, Funny

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if 533,000 of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

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what will happen next by virtualone · 2004-09-02 10:56 · Score: 3, Funny

the recalled machines will be sold to gericom, who puts a new sticker on them and resells them as brand-new-bleeding-edge-desktop replacment. melting through plastic is a side effect that is expected of their machines.

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I see... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-02 10:58 · Score: 1, Funny

So that is what that burning sensation was in my lap! And, to think, I called my girlfriend a dirty whore! Thought for sure she gave me something!
Re:Solution by MarkMcLeod · 2004-09-02 10:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Sure, but can it show me where in line I am for those three inches I've been expecting for months now?
Boring called. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-02 11:00 · Score: 5, Funny

It wants this story back.
Wonder if they shipped any by Marxist+Hacker+42 · 2004-09-02 11:00 · Score: 2, Funny

to China? Might make as good of a heat source as the uranium.... :-)

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Re:I Wonder.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-02 11:01 · Score: 1, Funny

You just recently saw Fight Club again and were dying to make that reference, right? Right?

*grin*
blast! by tubbtubb · 2004-09-02 11:04 · Score: 3, Funny

I am so sick of people stealing Apple's ideas.
Oops... by g-to-the-o-to-the-g · 2004-09-02 11:05 · Score: 3, Funny

So much for trading my PowerBook in for a Thinkpad, either way I might get burned.

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oh GOOD by i+love+pineapples · 2004-09-02 11:16 · Score: 4, Funny

The burning sensation's from the LAPTOP... I was wondering how the hell a geek like myself (can't get laid to save my life) caught an STD...
1. Re:oh GOOD by Bombcar · 2004-09-02 18:31 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  EEP!
  
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Hot! by HedonismBot · 2004-09-02 11:26 · Score: 4, Funny

That's just the kind of thing you want on top of your lap...

There's smoke coming out of your crotch...Is the power unit in your laptop melting or are you just REALLY happy to see me?

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Stock prices by Paralizer · 2004-09-02 11:58 · Score: 2, Funny

IBM shares closed up 35 cents to $84.57 on the New York Stock Exchange.

There's nothing like fucking up and getting paid for it.
But that's simply not true! by conebrid · 2004-09-02 14:50 · Score: 2, Funny

My Thinkpad is sitting on my lap right now as I'm typing this, and the temperature is perfectly norm... AAAAAH! IT BURRRRRRRRNS! FOR THE LOVE OF NI, PLEASE SOMEONE STOP THE BURNING IN MY CROTCH!

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Seriously, that would suck though, huh?