About 100,000 battery packs used in Lenovo Inc's notebook computers are being recalled because they could overheat and cause a fire, media Friday quoted the company as saying.

The picture shows a Lenove's notebook.

About 100,000 battery packs used in Lenovo Inc's notebook computers are being recalled because they could overheat and cause a fire, media Friday quoted the company as saying.

The recall involves batteries made by Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. and follows four reports of overheating. In one case, a user suffered minor eye irritation, the company said.

In the interests of public safety, the computer giant said it will offer customers free-of-charge replacements for all recalled battery packs.

Some IT analysts said the recalls shouldn't hurt the company.

Benjamin Gray, a business computer analyst with Forrester Research Inc., said Lenovo maintains a solid reputation in the U.S. and Europe and should fare well despite the recall.

"Yeah, this is certainly a difficult thing to deal with as a user and a customer," Gray said, "but it's not something that will cause customers to move away from Lenovo, absolutely not."

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