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HP recalls 15,000 laptop batteries in China
Looks like HP has got more problems than they had anticipated. After recalling about 70,000 batteries in US, they have issued a recall of 15,000 laptop batteries sold in China from August 2007 to January 2008. Though any incidents have not been reported, the batteries are said to overheat and trigger into an external [...]
HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries
Uh oh, the battery hazard monster is back to haunt notebook users. HP has now announced to take back 70,000 notebook batteries that can potentially pose a fire or burn hazard. The lithium-ion batteries came with HP and Compaq laptops or were sold separately from August 2007 till March 2008. The problem seems to [...]
HP Compaq Mini 700 netbook lands in Europe
HP Compaq has launched Mini 700 netbook for the European market that looks nothing but a replica to the Mini 1000. The Mini 700 has the same 10.2-inch screen, Windows XP as the default OS and features the most common netbook 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB RAM, Intel chipset that also handles the onboard [...]