Lenovo recalls more than 80,000 expensive laptops at risk of fire

Lenovo has decided to recall the fifth generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon business laptop that was produced between December 2016 and October 2017 due to the risk of fire. The company will also perform a free machine check and repair if necessary.

Lenovo has a dedicated website for this product to help users check whether their laptop is in recovery mode (visit here).

The recalled ThinkPad X1 Carbon includes models of 20HQ, 20HR, 20K3 and 20K4.

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The cause of this incident involves a screw that doesn't tighten on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which leads to overheating, causing the machine to fail. There are about 83,500 ThinkPad X1 Carbon machines affected by this error.

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th generation is a high-end, high-power, high-power laptop line, with many powerful options and beautiful designs sold by Lenovo since May 5/2017.

Recently, Lenovo's fingerprint security mechanism has also appeared to allow hackers to pass and easily obtain system administrator passwords for enterprise computers.

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