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Flaming ThinkPad battery: It’s a Sony

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Sep 21, 20061 min

Lenovo has confirmed the battery that caught fire in a Thinkpad notebook at Los Angeles International Airport was indeed a Sony, just like the exploding battery that is believed to have caused an evacuation at Yahoo yesterday.

Lenovo uses Sony batteries but was not part of the massive recall and said last week its laptops were safe.

Sorry, Lenovo. And what if a plane had crashed because of it? Maybe you should have played it safe?

CNET Asia reports: “[We] are pretty certain the Korean and Australian national carriers may be considering adding ThinkPads to the list of banned laptops on their flights.”

Let’s hope other airlines follow until the risk is gone.

mike_barton

Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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