IBM recalls over half a million laptop batteries

Unless I'm reading something wrong (or the news source is way off) it would appear that IBM is recalling 553,000 of their laptop batteries.

The adapters can overheat and melt, posing a fire and electrical shock hazard to users, according to a statement released Thursday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The flaw has led to some "minor property damage," but no reports of personal injury, IBM said in a statement on its Web site. The adapters were sold worldwide with IBM's ThinkPad i Series laptops and ThinkPad 390 and 240 computers as well as certain ThinkPad s Series notebooks sold in the Asia-Pacific region outside of Japan, according to the IBM statement.

So, if you own an affected ThinkPad or if you fear spontaneous combustion, you may want to have that checked out.

[via PC World]

Posted by peter on September 03, 2004 at 02:50 AM
Comments

553,000 = half a billion?

Posted by: Kenny at September 3, 2004 05:37 AM

ha! no, i made a typo. half a MILLION.

bah, million... billion, close enough. ;)

thanks

Posted by: peter at September 3, 2004 05:41 AM