Loose Battery on new W520 4276

Hi
Have had this machine for a couple of weeks and very pleased with it.
But would like to check if this is a common issue.
The battery is quite loose, it is possible to move it both vertically and horizontally.

Just got my W520. I've used a bunch of ThinkPads at work, but this is the first I've purchased myself. I'm extremely happy with it, but this loose battery issue really bothered me. The main reason I love the ThinkPads is that "solid" feeling, and this really breaks that whole experience. I think it's really weird that Lenovo would release something like this, but everything else about the system is so awesome, I decided it would be petty for me to raise a fuss.
I ended up just placing a few strips of electrical tape in the battery compartment, careful not to cover any stickers so it wouldn't damage it if I ever need to remove it (like if sending it in for service). I put four strips of tape on each side as shown in the image below. The strips on the right are full width and the ones on the left are slit in half lengwise just so it doesn't cover any seams in the body - I'm a little OCD. Only putting the tape of one side still caused a little bit of wiggle, so if you're going to do this, go the whole way! You may need to tweak the thickness slightly by putting more or less strips, but it should do the job.
Good luck!

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Perhaps the memory clock limit was to address a possible cause of the SSS issue. I've been running 1.37 with Crucial 4x8 gb SODIMMs w/o any issue. They are capable of running at 761MHz but are being clocked at 664.6 Mhz. Not a big deal for me.
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http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub...s/8buj15us.exe
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benchmark programs.
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hibernation state after running Setup Defaults by the F9 key in the ThinkPad
Setup menu.
- Fixed an issue where the Power-On NumLock function in ThinkPad Setup did not
work.
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Hurrah!!!! and thank you Lenovo! (especially "someotherguy")
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