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."

Comments

Re:Well

[LiquidCoooled]

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.

Re:Correction

[sRev]

The first rule of batter recall is you don't talk about battery recall.