Lenovo begins global recall for fire hazard ThinkPad batteries
Lenovo has recalled at least 155,000 ThinkPad batteries that it says could be a fire hazard.
Lenovo has recalled at least 155,000 ThinkPad batteries that it says could be a fire hazard.
Lenovo has issued a worldwide recall of 205,000 notebook batteries. Are you affected?
Perhaps the horrible experience I had unboxing a brand new Lenovo R60e Thinkpad (Mobile Celeron-based) is not projectable to all of Lenovo's Thinkpads, but I think it probably is. This is a Thinkpad I purchased.
The BBC reports that the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), whose members are Congressional appointees, wants to begin an official probe into Lenovo's $13 million contract to sell 16,000 ThinkCentre desktop computers to the U.S.
That's the headline I probably should have used on my previous blog about how HP was so rattled by Dell's announcement of a Cingular-provisioned 3G wireless broadband notebook that it issued a formal response. Normally, if one vendor feels compelled to issue a statement in response to another vendor's announcement, it's an explanation of why the newly announced product or service is a bad idea.