Well, has it only been since October since the last high-profile recall of laptop batteries? Indeed it has. On Thursday, HP announced a recall of 70,000 laptop batteries due to overheating issues. In fact, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s announcement, there are two reports of batteries that overheated and ruptured, resulting in fire. No injuries, though, so that’s a positive. Laptops that can be affected by the recall are: HP PavilionCompaq PresarioHPHP Compaq dv2000 dv2500 dv2700 dv6000