[Tfug] Alan Cox's exploding laptop

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 04:44:14PM -0700, Chad Woolley wrote:

> They issued a recall on my Thinkpad power supply because of heat
> problems.  This was in about 1998.  I never sent it in, and used it
> for another 8 years with no problems.  I'd be willing to bet this was
> some knockoff or tampered non-IBM battery.  IBM made good laptops,
> when they were still making them...

Actually, he wasn't sure if it was a real IBM battery or not, but IBM is
looking into it (he was able to find some bit of label with numbers on
it still).

-- 
Tom Rini