Just when you thought it was safe to drop your ThinkPad, exploding battery syndrome strikes again. Lenovo is recalling Sanyo made nine cell lithium-ion batteries made for use
with ThinkPad notebooks shipped between November 2005 and February 2007. It was
forced to do so after a number of customers reported that their Thinkpad laptops
caught fire after being dropped - why anybody would drop a laptop to see if it would explode is strange but apparently it's the done thing with ThinkPads now.
In accordance with US federal law,
Lenovo alerted the Consumer Product Safety Commission after it received
the reports, all of which related to an impact on the corner of the laptop. The
CPSC said one owner suffered minor eye irritation as a result of one such
incident - probably when he took it back to PC World for a refund.
The batteries were supplied with the ThinkPad R60, R60e, T60,
T60p, Z60m, Z61e, Z61m and Z61p series and were also shipped out to customers
as replacement units. The recall has been applied to all batteries with the part
number FRU P/N 92P1131. It's not the first time Lenovo has been caught shipping explosive batteries. Last year a large scale battery recall by Sony effect over 500,000 ThinkPads.
Please send any pictures of exploding laptops - we'd love to see them 
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