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August 24th, 2006, 12:38 PM
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| Worldwide Battery recall? BBC News in London has just announced that Apple are recalling several million laptop batteries due to overheating. Nothing on the Apple website. Nothing on the BBC website. Anyone got any details?  |
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August 24th, 2006, 12:40 PM
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August 24th, 2006, 12:41 PM
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August 24th, 2006, 12:56 PM
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| It's on the BBC site now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5283424.stm 1.8 million batteries on iBook G4 and Powerbook G4 made between Oct 03 and August 06. Follows similar recall from Dell. |
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August 24th, 2006, 01:05 PM
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| Just heard this on MSNBC as well. Granted they were making a major commotion about it, but has anyone done the math? 1.8 million batteries over the past three years, and 9 known cases of them actually causing a fire. According to my math that's a 0.0005% failure (or flame) rate. Hell, I think I have more of a chance of being hit by lightning. |
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August 24th, 2006, 03:24 PM
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| I'm trying to access the recall site atm., but it is almost impossible.. I came all the way to the serial number control, but I did type a letter to much! Otherwise it would have been registered.. :/ Edit: By the way, me and my friends are pretty happy to get new, fresh batteries  |
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August 24th, 2006, 03:57 PM
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August 24th, 2006, 06:51 PM
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