Comments on: Lenovo to recall 526,000 notebook batteries

Recall makes Lenovo the fourth major PC manufacturer to haul batteries back due to safety issues.

[roger.d.miller]

Not exactly!

The notebooks weren't recalled. Only the batteries.

[Trane Francks]

Batteries only

Can you explain why this is funny? Why should I exchange my T43, one of the affected notebooks, when I am already now slated to receive a new battery? Do I really want to lose another 4-5 days of serious productivity to replicate my computing environment on yet another PC?

I think not. I'll take the battery, thanks.

[john.breen]

Moot point

"the PC maker said that the way it puts batteries in its hardware differs from the other companies' methods"

Well, it doesn't sound like it makes a difference how you encase the cell or where it sits inside the computer. The bottom line is that across companies, they occasionally burn up no matter what the configuration. Bad is bad.

[DrtyDogg]

Funny

When the Apple recall happened I read a quote from a Lenovo exec that said something to the effect of ("We use the same cells in our batteries but because of the way that our engineers have emplemented them we will not need to recall them" not an exact quote, but the general idea). I guess they aren't as smart as they thought they where.