HP Recalls More Laptops For 'Fire and Burn Hazards' (cnet.com)

The US Product and Safety Commission just announced HP's "battery safety" recall of about 78,500 laptops for what the UPSC calls "fire and burn hazards." From a report: HP initiated the recall in January 2018, and expanded it in January 2019, but the news hadn't widely circulated because of the US government shutdown -- the UPSC finally posted the news to its site on Tuesday with the explanation "NOTE: This recall expansion was previously announced independently on January 17, 2019 by the firm due to US government furlough." This is part of a continuing series of battery recalls from HP. The January 28 recall was for about 51,000 models, but 41,000 were recalled in June 2016 and 100,000 in January 2017, bringing the total for the past 2.5 years to almost a quarter of a million.

Comments

Am I affected?

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Look no further: HP Notebook Computer and Mobile Workstation Battery Safety Recall and Replacement Program

WTF is a UPSC?

[drinkypoo]

There's no UPSC, it's the US CPSC. HTH, HAND.

Re: 51000 models ?

[Nidi62]

So my computer doubles as a grill? Time for a grilled cheese sandwich!

Those slits on the bottom aren't for air flow, they're for grill lines.