I’m sure that there are not too many of you that have missed the media coverage of the Dell battery recall in the last week or so, whether it be in the paper, on the news or the internet.
Apple are following in there footsteps (the other way around for once), by recalling 1.8 Million Laptop batteries which were manufactured by the Sony corporation. 700,000 of these batteries have been sold outside the U.S….. Thats a hell of a lot of batteries!
These Batteries were sold between October of 2003 and August this year and were used in the 12inch ibook and Powerbook G4 aswel as the 15inch Powerbook G4. Two users have reported burns and/or property damage already.
You can find more info about the recall on Apples battery recall page here.
September 1, 2006 at 7:40 pm
I bought a replacement battery for my iBook about a month ago from http://www.laptopsforless.com/laptopbattery and it works great. Is there any reason to think that a replacement laptop battery would be any worse than the manufacturers?
February 3, 2007 at 12:57 pm
No reason that I can think of. Obviously Apple wants you to buy their products.
IMO if the product works and there is no problems with it then it is just as good.