My X200 left side USB Port is Magnetized?

[cybersearcher69]

I just got a new X200 the P8700 2.53GHZ model. Build date 1/23/2009. I went to plug in a mouse to the USB port just next to the exhaust vent area and realized that this port is definitely magnetized. I tried other USB mice figuring maybe the plug on the mouse got magnetized somehow. But it is indeed the USB port on the X200 that is magnetized. I can literaly let the USB mouse cable just hang there and it stays attached!

The other ports are not this way. What gives?

[blackomegax]

fluke?

mine has nothing.


USB is not sensative to magnetism and its far enough way from the HDD it doesn't matter.

[AvalonXIII]

My friend's X200 left USB port is also magnetized, so don't worry about it. It's probably there by design.

[g1tigi]

Just to chime in on the discussion here: my X200s also has the magnetized usb port near the cpu vent on the left side. And to those who don't know what we mean: it's really clearly magnetized...it sucked the usb key right in like a kitchen magnet.

Lenovo's equivalent of magsafe? ...only completely pointless.

[EOMtp]

The magnet is there so it can latch the switch inside the left edge of the LCD case when the lid is closed -- the state of that magnetically-activated switch is what "tells" the machine whether the lid is open or closed.