Apple laptop battery recall: one time, just like the last time

Posted Aug 24th 2006 2:09PM by Sarah Gilbert
Filed under: Bad News, Products and Services, Apple Inc (AAPL), Dell (DELL)

apple batteries overheating Is this a line dance? Last week, Dell's recall of 4.1 billion Sony-manufactured laptop batteries must have sent every laptop manufacturer scurrying to their quality control department. I should have just gone ahead and bought the domain, "applebatteryrecall.com" right then, because here it is 10 days later and guess who's recalling Sony batteries now?

Yep, Apple. The cutest of all computer companies only has 1.8 million batteries as a part of its recall, from 12" iBook G4, 12" PowerBook G4 and 15" PowerBook G4 laptops sold between October 2003 and August 2006 in the U.S. Unfortunately for the headline writers, no Apple laptops actually caught fire, although two consumers did receive minor burns when their laptop overheated.

While no one likes a recall, it doesn't seem as if either Apple or Dell will feel it on the bottom line; and, in fact, Apple stock is up a tick on the news, 21 cents, to $67.52. Sony Corp (SNE), on the other hand, is down nearly 3% to $43.27.

[Photo courtesy Dat Nguyen]

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9-11-2006 @ 1:46PM

henry said...

I bought a replacement battery for my Sony laptop about a month ago from www.laptopsforless.com and it works great. Is there any reason to think that a replacement Sony laptop battery would be any worse than the manufacturers?