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The company's initial recall statement noted the threat behind letting a battery to overheat. "Apple has determined that, in a limited number of older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro units, the ...
August 2006: Following Dell's battery recall, Apple Computer also recalls 1.8 million notebook computer batteries manufactured by Sony. Similar to Dell, most of the notebooks were sold in the United States. However, some 700,000 units could be found overseas.
In such cases, Apple asked affected owners to contact AppleCare. [12] There were problems with batteries on some 2007 models not being read by the MacBook. This is caused by a logic board fault and not a fault with the battery. [citation needed] In February 2010, Apple announced a recall for MacBooks bought between 2006 and 2007 for hard drive ...
Though the problems first appeared to be solved, they continued for many users. In early August 2006, Engadget reported that a PowerBook had "violently exploded" because of faulty battery. [9] On August 24, 2006, Apple and the CPSC announced an additional recall of more batteries for the same PowerBook models. [10]
One year after issuing a recall of tens of thousands of computer batteries, Hewlett Packard has expanded the recall to include another 54,000 batteries used in Compaq and HP notebooks, the U.S ...
The Apple III (styled as apple ///) is a business-oriented personal computer produced by Apple Computer and released in 1980. Running the Apple SOS operating system, it was intended as the successor to the Apple II, but was largely considered a failure in the market. It was designed to provide features business users wanted: a true typewriter ...
The CPSC says the lithium-ion Unit Pack Power “U004” or “U004-1” batteries threaten to bring “serious injury and death” to users after 13 reports in the U.S. that “the battery ...
As part of the Mac transition to Intel processors, Apple released a 13-inch laptop simply named "MacBook", as a successor to the PowerPC-based iBook series of laptops. . During its existence, it was the most affordable Mac, serving as the entry-level laptop that was less expensive than the rest of the Mac laptop lineup (the MacBook Pro portable workstation, and later the MacBook Air ultra-port