More burns from laptops, several makes!

[Brian Ellis]

Link

[Nowhere]

w00t! Free new/working battery! (seeing that those batteries affected are 4 years old...they're good as UPS at this point at most)

[Dr Mordrid]

The key factoid in the story is that they are SONY supplied batteries, just as in 2006

[UtwigMU]

The 9-cell in my Thinkpad is now 3.5y old (Sanyo, not Sony) and I have 30Wh out of original 72Wh charge. Still good for about an hour of wireless browsing.