Best Buy Recalls MacBook Pro Batteries

redletterdave writes "A recent line of complaints from MacBook Pro users forced big box retailer Best Buy to finally issue a recall notice for 5,100 MacBook Pro replacement batteries after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission advised customers to 'immediately stop using the recalled battery.' Both the CPSC and Best Buy received 13 individual instances of the MacBook Pro battery catching fire, with one incident resulting in 'a serious burn to a consumer's leg.'"

Re:Not An Apple Fan

[russotto]

I'm fairly certain that this does not apply to Apple batteries.

Right. As I noted in the firehose article, this is third party batteries only and Apple batteries still only catch fire if you hold them wrong.

I wonder if the failure to do so was intentional, perhaps click bait.

Slashdot, owned by Dice... the cases for incompetence and malice are both so strong....