HP Adds 54000 Batteries to Recall List, Tops 120000

" The new recall now affects a total of 31 separate notebooks split across four product lines: HP Pavilion laptops, Compaq Presario laptops, HP laptops, and HP Compaq laptops. According to HP, it's believed that these battery packs could potentially overheat and split apart, which itself could lead to fire damage of some sort—two instances of such were noted in an initial report from the U. S. Consumer Product Safety... Hewlett-Packard has added 54,000 new batteries to its worldwide recall list, all stemming from an initial May 2009 recall of approximately 70,000 lithium-ion batteries across 25 of its laptops. A total of 38 additional reports have come up since then, which includes, "11 instances of minor personal injury and 31 instances of minor property damage.