Battery recall Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Laptop battery replacments starting to arrive

by Dave Caolo (Sep 5th, 2006)

When I contacted Apple about the battery that was in my Powerbook (Yes, I'm one of the lucky 1.8 million people who get a shiny, new battery from Apple), I was told that my replacement would arrive in 4-6 weeks. I thought that was odd, as Apple's turnaround time is usually much better than that, but ...

MacBook/MacBook Pro batteries problematic?

by Scott McNulty (May 31st, 2006)

Sean Bonner, former TUAWer and current king of Metroblogging, thinks that something is rotten in the state of Cupertino. It seems that Jonas Luster informed Sean of a problem with his MacBook Pro's battery. He went to the Apple store to replace his fried battery and had an interesting encounter with ...