Fires stop with Apple and Dell, insists Sony Sony and PC makers scrambled on Thursday to reassure customers that the latest battery recall involving Apple Computer would be the last.
Dell said it had received reports of six incidents involving the batteries, according to a press release from the Consumer Products Safety Commission last week. On Thursday, Apple reported that it had received nine reports of incidents, including two involving minor injuries. Dell is the world's largest PC maker, with much higher shipment levels than Apple. On Thursday, Clancy said that Sony and the various PC companies have exchanged information on the defective battery cells and the implementation of those cells in various notebooks, and Sony now believes Dell and Apple are the only companies that will have to recall batteries. Not surprisingly, the other PC makers agreed. Hewlett-Packard "has no plans to recall notebook battery packs in conjunction with either the 24 August 2006 Apple notebook battery recall or the 14 August 2006 Dell notebook battery recall. HP has been in contact with Sony, the manufacturer of the battery cells in question, and Sony has communicated that HP should not be impacted by these recalls", HP said in a statement. Gateway said:"Based on available information and our suppliers' input, we do not believe our systems are at risk for the same malfunctions that caused our competitors to issue battery recalls. It appears that a combination of factors led to the fault requiring the recalls, and this combination is not present in our systems. Gateway notebooks use different battery cells than those implicated in our competitor's recalls." | ||||
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