Incendiary laptop

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This time it's Thinkpad, but the suspect is the same - Sony made
battery

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...modLoc=Home-C4-Business-ousiv-1&from=business

<quote>
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics maker Sony (6758.T: Quote,
NEWS, Research) said on Saturday it is investigating a fire incident
on a Lenovo (0992.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) laptop PC that
reportedly used a Sony-made battery.

Media reports said a Lenovo notebook computer equipped with a Sony
battery caught fire at Los Angeles International Airport last weekend.

The incident came after Dell (DELL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and
Apple Computer (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) last month recalled
almost 6 million Sony-made batteries, saying they could produce smoke
and catch fire.

A Sony spokesman said the Tokyo-based company is looking into the
matter, without specifying. He also said, however, he is not aware of
an official confirmation that a Sony battery was used at the PC.

Officials at Lenovo's Japanese unit were not immediately available for
comment.
</quote>
 
This time it's Thinkpad, but the suspect is the same - Sony made
battery
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Well, you had me checking my batteries. My Thinkpad has ... Sanyo
batteries. Actually, my Gateway also has Sanyos.

Yousuf Khan
 
Well, you had me checking my batteries. My Thinkpad has ... Sanyo
batteries. Actually, my Gateway also has Sanyos.
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Ack! My ThinkPad T42p at work has a Sanyo but my personal T60 has
a Sony.
 
krw said:
Ack! My ThinkPad T42p at work has a Sanyo but my personal T60 has
a Sony.
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Better go check with Lenovo in a couple of weeks (assuming you're still
alive, of course). :-)

Yousuf Khan
 
You can still get to the Thinkpads through the IBM site?
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Sure. AFAIK, the Lenovo pages are just an alias for the IBM site.
There were a lot of IBM ThinkPads sold. My T60, bought in April,
even has the tri-color IBM logo on the case, though the boot splash
screen says Lenovo. I had to send it back for service and I called
the IBM service number, but sent it back to Solectron. ;-)

Lenovo employees are still on the internal network too.
 
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