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Apple Powerbook and iBook Battery Recall
doubleacr writes "The Register is reporting that Apple is recalling batteries in 12 and 15 inch Powerbook and 12 inch iBooks sold between October 2004 and May 2005. Apple has set up a page with info on model number and serial numbers of batteries affected, and also how to get a replacement."
Apple have come up with some innovative products, but their market share remains tiny. Sadly, though, many buyers have been mislead by the marketing and eye-candy, and desperately try to justify their overpriced purchases to themselves on forums around the Net. Let's see what they really mean...
"MacOS X is everything Linux wants to be."
"Despite the fact that Linux is just code and can't WANT to be anything, I truly believe that it'd love to be a single-vendor, single-platform, sluggish half-proprietary OS with dwindling market share. Linux would love to throw away its impressively growing corporate takeup for that."
"Apple hardware is for real computer lovers."
"It's no hassle to use a plethora of keyboard combos to make up for the patronising one-button mouse. Despite the fact that my hands have FIVE fingers, and multiple-buttons make Web browsing so much more pleasant, I prefer my computer to be treat me like a special-needs child."
"Aqua makes me so much more productive!"
"My non-techie friends drool over the transparency and scaling effects, even though UI research has shown that they add practically nothing to getting real work done. It feels like KDE 2 on a Pentium 200, and I can't change to a light and fast WM, but those drop-shadows must make me work so quickly!"
"OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source."
"OpenDarwin.org and its community of about 27 is surely not just a token gesture by Apple. Pretty much nobody uses pure Darwin, and all the crucial components of the system are closed and require me to spend money just to get major OS updates, but they're really helping the community somehow."
"You get what you pay for with Apple hardware."
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). Meanwhile thousands of Mac laptop owners are trying to sue Apple over poorly-made logic boards. But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
I'm glad to see a story posted with no opinion added on. "Apple recalls iBook batteries because apple SUCKS and PCs RULE!@!", for example.
"The need to build the internet comes from something inside us, something programmed... something we can't resist."
>>US Consumer Product Safety Commission received six reports of batteries overheating
That accounts for almost 50% of Apple customers!! Is that SMALL??
And Apple fanboys bought it? Then they are definitely dumb.
Q. Can I use my iBook or PowerBook without the battery in it?
A. Yes, once you've removed the affected battery, just plug in the AC adapter to power the computer.
Note from Apple:
Congratulations, you just purchased a desktop PC for double the price.
Instead of revising the battery, people should just buy a car battery and hook the jumper cables right onto the motherboard.
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for buying a Macintrash!
And I thought only Windows users were dumb. How silly of me!
They are. Anyone who chooses a bug-riddled, virus/worm/trojan/spyware/malware-ridden, DRM-crippled, monopoly driven platform over easier to use and more stable alternatives (Apple) and more robust, more stable alternatives (FreeBSD/Linux) is making a stupid, indeed idiotic choice. They know they have the Apple alternative, yet they moronicly choose familiarity over security and ease of use.
Contrast this with Apple users, who may be ignorant of the specific designs of their laptops (there are, after all, portable tablets and laptops, including some of Apple's offerings, that do not run without the battery regardless of AC power), but having chosen Apple of Windows they are, by definition, not stupid.
(The humor-impaired and Microsoft apologists will doubtless pop a vein or two and mod this down . . . joke notwithstanding. As a GNU/Linux user myself, I can hardly be accused of being an Apple fanboy by any reasonable human being, but I recognize quality when I see it and like to give credit where credit is due. Microsoft deserves little-to-no credit (c.f. the last 15 years of their shoddy product and unethical, even criminal, behavior), but Apple definitely deserves credit for their fine products, even if Jobs is a Gate's wannabe at the bottom of his heart.
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