Thursday August 17, 2006

- Burning batteries: after Dell, Apple ? - Yoc - 13:34:35

Source : Generation NT

As you might have heard on the news, Dell has decided to recall 4.1 million laptop batteries following a series of impressive accidents. Here's some more information: Sony has reportedly been introducing some kind of metal crap during the manufacturing process of its batteries, and is therefore to be blamed for these fires and explosions. All the batteries sold between 1st April 2004 and 18 July 2006 are therefore likely to short-circuit.

The only thing is that Sony is actually providing many laptop manufacturers, includind Dell of course, but also Apple...
Will Apple be as "generous" as its competitor and do a massive and costly recall? As you can see in the following picture, it seems indeed that Apple products have not be left untouched by the problem:



More pictures on flickr.
(thanks to François).

[translation by Greg]