Sunday, May 22, 2005

Apple Recalls Batteries of it's Notebooks

Apple recalls batteries of it's famouse line of notebooks due to a firehazard caused by the overheating of these batteries.

In exchange, Apple is offering free replacement batteries for certain units of the 12-inch iBook G4, and 12-inch and 15-inch PowerBook G4s, sold between October 2004 and May 2005.

The affected batteries, manufactured by South Korean company LG Chem, have model numbers including A1061, A1078, and A1079 and serial numbers that start with HQ441 through HQ507 or 3X446 through 3X510. So far, six consumer complaints of the batteries overheating have been received by Apple.

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