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Sanyo Blamed in Lenovo Battery Recall
ukhackster writes "Those overheating laptop batteries are back. Lenovo is recalling 205,000 'extended' batteries which shipped with its ThinkPad machines, or were bought as replacements. Slashdot readers will doubtless remember the flak which Sony attracted last year, after it was blamed for exploding Dell notebooks and several massive recalls. This time, the batteries were made by Sanyo. Their engineers determined that the failure was repeatable by dropping machines using the batteries from a certain height and at a certain angle. As soon as the repeatable nature of the flaw was determined, a recall was issued."
Your correct.
Their laptops explode at a totally different frequency.
Apples' magic smoke is colour coordinated and scented.
Its actually a rather nice rainbow effect which draws in a crowd of people who all get burnt.
liqbase
The first rule of batter recall is you don't talk about battery recall.
A Sanyo spokes-person reports that the recall involves affixing a sticker to the affected batteries as to the proper height and angle from which to drop a laptop to avoid battery failure. All other procedures will void the warranty.
[Actually, their methodology reminds me of an old Police Squad episode where the detectives were trying to determine how a body fell into the chalk outline by repeatedly shooting volunteers from different angles. In the background was a pile of bodies from previous experiments.]
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Lenovo - Bad batteries
Sony - Rootkits
Microsoft - FUD / monopolistic designs
Apple - DRM
I'm just going to sit here in the dark and enjoy my sense of self-righteousness.
Mmmmmmm.....