If you purchased an HP or Compaq-brand laptop between August 2007 and March 2008, we advise you to stop, drop and roll. Or, that’s what we would advise you to do if you were on fire – which is a real possibility thanks to the battery inside your laptop.
HP has kicked of a voluntary recall of over 70,000 laptop batteries from a variety of models. The decision was made to do so after two machines overheated and caught fire thanks to the faulty batteries. We imagine the laptop fires weren’t really that cool looking, so we found a better picture (above) to illustrate what a flaming laptop looks like.
If you’d like to find out more about the HP/Compaq laptop battery recall, you can do so on HP’s site.
[via The Register]
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“We imagine the laptop fires weren’t really that cool looking, so we found a better picture (above) to illustrate what kind of danger you might be in.”
What the hell are you people trying to do? This is not the way a reporter should be doing things. Obvyously the picture that you have displayed is staged. You remember the Chevy Truck and gas tank issue? I hope that someone takes you to court over this.
It is pretty obvious that the picture we used is staged/fake/whatever because we pointed it out ourselves, in the post.
Sheesh.
“We imagine the laptop fires weren’t really that cool looking, so we found a better picture (above) to illustrate what a flaming laptop looks like.”
What the hell are you people trying to do? This is not the way a reporter should be doing things. Obvyously the picture that you have displayed is staged. You remember the Chevy Truck and gas tank issue? I hope that someone takes you to court over this.
It is pretty obvious that the picture we used is staged/fake/whatever because we pointed it out ourselves, in the post.
Sheesh.