IBM and Lenovo announced today that they are recalling 526,000 laptop batteries made by Sony corporation. This follows the earlier recalls from Apple and Dell. Lenovo will offer customers free-of-charge replacement batteries for all recalled batteries.
IBM and Lenovo sold these Sony batteries in systems listed below between February 2005 and September 2006.
- ThinkPad R Series (R51e, R52, R60, R60e)
- ThinkPad T Series (T43, T43p, T60)
- ThinkPad X Series (X60, X60s)
To find out if your laptop is affected, you can use either Lenovo’s automated solution or find the batter number as shown in the picture. You have to remove the battery to check the model number.
