As expected, Dell's massive recall of laptop batteries was only the start.

A number of other firms that use Sony info-lithium cells in their PCs batteries are also going to have to swap them out and the first to do so is Apple, with a recall of around 1.8 million batteries - 700K of them outside the USA.

At-risk Macs are 15in PowerBook G4s and 12in iBook G4s and PowerBook G4s sold worldwide between October 2003 and August 2006.
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