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IBM Recalls 553,000 Laptop Power Units

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  2. Adapters from 4 years ago? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have a four year old laptop. It can hardly run KDE and a browser.

  3. Yes, but... by Zuke8675309 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    will their airbag deploy?

  4. Re:I felt... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Yes, I have fucking metamoderated recently. Where are my points?"

    Sucks to be you. I get mod points weekly

  5. niggA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    other members in ME! It's oficial

  6. Darl: proves SCO is right by wardk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    obviously this is the opening SCO has been looking for.

  7. Not-so-clever pun... by comrade009 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let's just say that this will really "heat" things up while downloading pr0n.

  8. My eyes! My eyes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/02/2 229259&threshold=-1&tid=184&tid=136&tid=1&tid= 218

    It's called contrast. Such a wonderful concept.