[Tfug] Alan Cox's exploding laptop
Tom Rini
trini at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Sep 25 07:44:22 MST 2006
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).
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Tom Rini
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