HP Recalls 203,000 Laptops Over Battery Fires

[JMcEntegart]

HP has said that it must recall 70,000 batteries in the U.S. following incidents that saw two machines overheat and catch fire.

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[Guest]

This should be in the next Mac laptop hunter spoof.

 

[PC_GI]

They need to stop calling them "laptops" before they catch a lawsuit because someone burned their 'down stairs' bissness off.

 

[dman3k]

Considering how Apple also recalled 2 million batteries on the MacBook...

Oh hey, Apple never has any problems!!!

 

[dextermat]

1 thing: don't buy DELL, HP, EMACHINE.... crappy computers

 

[kamkal]

[citation][nom]FireIsPretty[/nom]This should be in the next Mac laptop hunter spoof.[/citation]

Yea they could go along with the macbooks/ibooks whose batteries expand...
which then leads to not being able to close the laptop until the batteries 'cool down' and go back to original size..

 

[unlicensedhitman]

HP laptops aren't that crappy, I like how I can turn on/off the touchpad anytime I want by pushing the button just above the touchpad.

 

[DeadCheckR]

[citation][nom]dextermat[/nom]1 thing: don't buy DELL, HP, EMACHINE.... crappy computers[/citation]

If you buy the consumer line of products I would agree. However, their Business level machines through the channel are a different story.

 

[starryman]

Sony is hoping they didn't manufacture the batteries.

 

[Uncle Meat]

[citation][nom]PC_GI[/nom]They need to stop calling them "laptops" before they catch a lawsuit because someone burned their 'down stairs' bissness off.[/citation]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/22/man_burns_penis_with_laptop/

 

[eddieroolz]

Holy crap, I might have had a model that had a faulty battery! 12 cell too! Potentially double the explosion

Thank god I replaced it now..

 

[Luscious]

Glad my zd7000 is still working and didn't need to upgrade to one of those models.

 

[apache_lives]

HP, you suck

First nvidia issues now this? what next?

 

[anamaniac]

Ha.

Long live the desktop!

 

[solymnar]

It just floors me that battery overheating keeps on cropping up in laptops for the last few years.

Sony...apple...dell...hp

Wtf are the engineers doing?

"Well gollie mr manager we just kinda expected that our laptops would sorta mystically not suffer the same problems as others despite having near identical conditions of operation and battery/battery environment."

Seriously...if you saw a bunch of dams fail...and you looked at yours and noticed it was built increadibly similarly...wouldn't you...just maybe... want to redesign it to avoid a similar fate?

 

[mdillenbeck]

[citation][nom]UnlicensedHitman[/nom]HP laptops aren't that crappy, I like how I can turn on/off the touchpad anytime I want by pushing the button just above the touchpad.[/citation]
Yup, some nice stuff - but some real crap stuff too. Why have laptop makers abandoned hardware sound controls? (Can't turn my sound down or off until it blares the windows logon music - drat!) Also, my TX2120US does not have a Security Key - so I have to open it and use the keyboard. *grumble*

Overall, I give HP a "slightly above average" design grade. However, I do like how you can get a complete parts manual from online. HPs are no "magic black box" if you want to hack it.

 

[dextermat]

you have an HP laptop. Im sure you do, I smell something burning

 

[cabose369]

[citation][nom]starryman[/nom]Sony is hoping they didn't manufacture the batteries.[/citation]

Sony did manufacture those batteries... the DV2xxx, DV6xxx and DV9xxx series HP's batteries were mainly manufactured by Sony. Recently for the new DV4-xxxx, DV5-xxxx, DV6-xxxx and DV7-xxxx did they switch to LG batteries.

 

[manicmalki]

Score my wifes battery is going out and in the recall list. Teee heee saves me some money for bubble gum and hookers

 

[PC_GI]

[citation][nom]manicmalki[/nom]Score my wifes battery is going out and in the recall list. Teee heee saves me some money for bubble gum and hookers[/citation]

There is nothing better then bubble gum and hookers. ha ha