Apple Recalls 1.8 Million Laptop Batteries - New York Times

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

August 24, 2006
Apple Recalls 1.8 Million Laptop Batteries

By DAMON DARLIN
Apple Computer said today that it was recalling 1.8 million battery  
packs from its iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 laptop computers because of  
a risk that they could catch fire.

The batteries were made by a unit of Sony, which also made the 4.1  
million notebook batteries recalled by Dell last week.

The Apple recall is the second-largest safety recall in the consumer  
electronics industry, after Dell’s.

The Consumer Products Safety Commission said in its announcement of  
the recall that Apple had reported nine incidents of batteries  
overheating, including two that resulted in minor burns and some  
minor property damage. The agency said no serious injuries or deaths  
were reported by Apple, which is based in Cupertino, Calif.

The lithium-ion batteries were in computers sold from October 2003  
through August 2006. The commission said 700,000 of the battery packs  
are in computers sold outside the United States.

Apple has had previous recalls of laptop batteries. It recalled  
128,000 batteries made by LG Chem Ltd. of South Korea in May 2005 and  
another 28,000 batteries from the same manufacturer in August 2004.


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