08.25
Apple G4 iBook/Powerbook battery recall
Seems Apple bought a bunch of battery cells from the same place that Dell did. Oops.
Need I say more? Other than… 4-6 weeks to get a replacement battery? Reportedly – Dell was shipping replacement batteries to customers the next day…
Of course, we don’t Know how long they (Dell) sat on this until they had enough batteries to do that. Or how long Apple has been saving up batteries to do this also…
Somewhere… I saw that the return rate on something like this? 25-30% – so they don’t actually NEED to have 1.8 million batteries sitting around…
It’s all about the cynicism… we’ll see how long this takes.
And… I wonder where I can find a battery (that isn’t covered by the recall) for $$ while I wait for it to show up? How many people are going to go out and spend $150 on a battery when all they have to do is wait for one from Apple to show up.
