Apple Follows Dell To Replace Sony Batteries

Written by Adam Gosling

Friday, 25 August 2006

Although Apple has not had the volume or publicity Dell has received from Lithium Ion battery faults, the company certainly has an issue with the Sony made power sources and has announced a recall of 1.8 million PowerBook batteries. Like the Dell recall, the batteries cover those sold between October 2003 through to August, but seem restricted to its 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 15-inch PowerBook G4. The bulk of the affected notebooks were sold into the U.S. market with only 700,000 of the 1.8 million recalled sold outside America. Ironically the recall is the second largest recall of a consumer electronics device - the current (pardon the pun) Dell recall of 4.1 million Sony batteries manufactured over the same period is the largest. Both recalls are the result of a manufacturing design fault in Sony Corporation batteries. Though Dell's recall represents a far larger number in terms of percentage of sales, Apple has a much larger problem with the 1.8 million representing 32 per cent of units sold compared to Dell's recall is just shy of 15 per cent of the units sold over the period, according to Paul McKeon, Corporate Communications Manager for Dell Australia. For information about the recall and to identify if your battery is one of those affected go here. Related news items Linux On Lenovo Laptops -06/08/2007 Microsoft Reports Record Profit -29/04/2007 Dell Toughens Up To Take On Panasonic -29/01/2007 Samsung Quits Notebook Business -29/01/2007 Battery Recalls Could Change Market Share: IDC -30/11/2006 Newer news items Dell, Apple Travel Restrictions Grow -15/09/2006 "Missed Call" SPAM Under ACMA Investigation -14/09/2006 Only 6,000? Panasonic Must Have Recall Envy -06/09/2006 Unprotected Phones Abandoned At Airports -03/09/2006 Discarded Handhelds Reveal Secrets -30/08/2006 Older news items Naughty Dell Notebooks Powerless On Qantas -23/08/2006 Cell Phone Forces Pilot To Abort Flight -14/08/2006 Dell To Recall Exploding Batteries -14/08/2006 3 Teams With AppSense For More Affordable Security -09/08/2006 Oh, Okay. Another Dell Explosion Story -04/08/2006 Tag This Now: