Lenovo to recall 526,000 notebook batteries ...

[Lenovo123]

Lenovo will recall 526,000 notebook batteries due to faulty batteries, the company said on Thursday.
The batteries were designed by Lenovo, but Sony produced the lithium ion cell. The recall impacts notebooks produced from Feburary 2005 to September 2006, according to Lenovo spokesman Ray Gorman. For now, the recall will only impact about 5 percent to 10 percent of notebooks produced by Lenovo, Gorman said, but the company recommends that all customers go to the Lenovo site and check to see if they have one of the faulty batteries.

[edit] since there was some content in this, I've just removed the spam link [/edit]

[Kemp]

I know this is spam, but it raises a very good point. Sony make batteries for loads of laptop, notebook, etc companies and they've all been having to recall their products because of the risk of explosion/fire. How many have Sony had to recall? Zero...

[Candy]

That's not entirely true, afaik Sony recalled some batteries too after the other big companies crossed the recall line. Does make you wonder, what's Sony doing so wrong that all their batteries - and only theirs - explode?

[Kemp]

Hmmm... I didn't hear about Sony's recall, guess they're not immune to their own mistakes after all. Maybe they outsourced production to Elbonia or something.