From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [72.254.28.100] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.84.143.87]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 395634 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:47:36 -0400 Message-ID: <451D5C36.10500@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:47:34 -0700 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Lenovo battery recall affects several models References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/29/06 10:28 am, Will Honea thus wrote : > ** Reply to message from "Rick R." on Fri, > 29 Sep 2006 00:34:33 -0700 (PDT) > > > >> I think that this cross breeding of components is alarming. >> Up until now I would have never dreamed that Thinkpads could be affected by a Sony screw up. >> Thankz indeed for this info (and the URL), but I think it is very(!) >> worrysome that already millions of DELL, Mac and now Thinkpad units had their >> batteries recalled because SONY screwed up. >> Is anybody still really producing their own computers or are we already >> living in the brave new world where even brand name manufacturers only pillage >> the OEM market and then slap their respective label on the assembled box?!! >> > > Oh, come on! Why should any manufacturer want to produce every nut, bolt, belt > and battery in any product? Ford and GM buy tires from suppliers who > specialize in tires, neither makes their own batteries. Rubber plants are > expensive and none will survive supplying a single auto maker. Same for > batteries. > > Exactly, Will. > BTW, those "batteries" under recall are actually assemblies of multiple cells. > In the case of IBM/Lenovo, the actual battery is assembled using cells obtained > from Sony (or some other manufacturer), most computer makers will also > outsource the plastic moldings. The assembly is subcontracted to yet another > contractor, all under specifications provided by the computer maker. The idea > that IBM or any other large manufacturer does all the specialty production in > house brings to mind the old saw: Jack of all trades, master of none. > Imagine how expensive these machines would be if a single manufacturer did everything from plastic injection moldings to chip design and manufacture...! -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------