HP recalls 70,000 Notebook batteries due to Fire Hazard

FYI…

- http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09221.html
May 14, 2009 - "… recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Lithium-Ion batteries used in Hewlett-Packard and Compaq notebook computers
Units: About 70,000
Importer: Hewlett-Packard Co., of Palo Alto, Calif.
Hazard: The recalled lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers…"
(HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario, HP, HP Compaq - see link above for specific models)

- http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1…m-ion-batteries
15 May 2009 - "… Hewlett-Packard is voluntarily recalling about 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several models of its HP and Compaq laptops. Nine models of HP Pavilions, nine models of Compaq Presarios, two HP laptop models, and one HP Compaq laptop model sold between August 2007 and March 2008 all shipped with the dodgy battery… HP said that owners of the affected laptop models should pull the battery out of the machine and give it a ring* so it can ship a free replacement."
* http://bpr.hpordercenter.com/hbpr/M14.aspx

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It's ABOUT TIME…. I was wondering how long it would take them to do that……given the number of HP users (and there is a thead somewhere around here about this very thing,) who've had to pull their batteries out to get the laptop working, as it had been generating significantly more heat than the laptop's ability to dissipate it. Tallon41

Note that HP had to have a "fire" lit under them by the CPSC before anything started moving… Not surprising.