| Apple Computer Inc. and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have issued a recall of 128,000 batteries -- the second in less than a year.
The recalled batteries include those with model numbers A1061, A1078, and A1079 and serial numbers that begin with HQ441 through HQ507 and 3X446 through 3X510, Apple said on its Web site.
This recall affects more than 128,000 batteries in Apple's 12-inch and 15-inch PowerBook G4 and 12-inch iBook G4 computers shipped from October through May and includes some batteries sold separately, the company said.
The affected batteries could overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers, the CPSC said. The company has received six consumer reports of the batteries overheating.
Apple said the batteries were manufactured by LG Chem Ltd. of South Korea, the same company that manufactured about 28,000 of the 15-inch PowerBook batteries recalled in August for a similar flaw.
"It seems like they have a problem with their supplier," said Rob Enderle, founder and president of the Enderle Group. "That hurts customers' good will. They may be forced to get a new supplier." |
