Quanta Airlines to restrict use of Apple laptops?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 25, 2006 at 1:50pm
Qantas Airlines is seeking advice on whether it should place restrictions on the use of Mac notebooks on its aircraft, following the computer maker’s recall of 1.8 million batteries this week.
A Qantas spokesman told APC this afternoon that the company was seeking further information on the precise risk posed by the batteries in PowerBooks and iBooks, and whether they posed the same risk as Dell batteries. “We have put limitations on Dell computers and at this stage we are awaiting further information from Apple,” said the spokesman.
agrees Says:
wow, i didn’t realize this battery recall is getting so much publicity. Again. what nonsence. Makes me wonder if ibook g4/powerbook owners are gonna be heating up their computers to the brink to see if they can get the recalled batterys to blow up. Apple would defintetly replace that computer with a new macbook/macbook pro
Posted on August 26, 2006
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
drdreric Says:
This is just silly. Not every Apple notebook has a Sony battery that is at risk, and not every Sony battery at risk is in Apple or Dell products.
On an airplane, no one will get up and walk away from their machine while it is running, so it is HIGHLY unlikely to ever get that hot. It will be noticed and turned off.
Posted on August 26, 2006