January 23, 2009
Recalling Battery Packs
Computer giant Hewlett-Packard Company is recalling 135,000 battery packs worldwide for some of its Pavilion and Presario range of laptop computers, including about 2,700 across the Asia-Pacific.
The defective batteries - made by a third-party supplier - tend to overheat and could pose a fire hazard.
‘The estimated impacted battery shipments to Asia-Pacific are 2 per cent of the total worldwide replacement programme,’ an HP spokeswoman said.
HP received 16 reports of batteries overheating and four cases of minor property damage were reported in the US. ‘No injuries have been reported. This property damage was isolated to either the notebook or the battery pack in question,’ HP said. All the more reason to research winbook laptop batteries.