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The recall of Sony-manufactured laptop computer batteries was extended on Thursday to about 1.1 million battery packs used in systems sold by Apple. The recall was announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and follows a similar recall of 4.1 million Sony-manufactured batteries used in Dell laptops announced last week. Dell and the CPSC had reported six known instances of battery problems in Dell computers, including some well-documented occurrences of fires associated with the batteries and computers. The CPSC said Apple has received nine reports of batteries overheating, including two reports of minor burns from handling overhead computers and...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. will recall 1.8 million lithium-ion notebook batteries after nine devices overheated, causing minor burns in two users, U.S. safety regulators said on Thursday. The recall is the second-biggest in U.S. history involving electronics or computers, after No. 1 PC maker Dell Inc. recalled 4.1 million lithium-ion batteries last week, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. In both cases the batteries had power cells made by Sony Corp. Cupertino, California-based Apple will recall 1.1 million batteries sold with notebooks in the United States and 700,000 abroad, the safety agency said. They were...

Along with its transition to Intel processors, Apple Computer in the first half of next year will introduce new eye-catching industrial designs for both of its laptop offerings, AppleInsider has learned. Although the Mac maker has only gone on record in saying that the first Intel-based Macintosh systems are due by the middle of 2006, information passed on by extremely reliable sources indicates that the company is on track to begin introducing its first Intel machines much sooner. With the initiation of the Intel Power Mac project last month, all five of Apple's Intel Macintosh projects are now said to...

About the Mac OS X 10.4.2 Update (Delta) This software updates Mac OS X 10.4.1 to version 10.4.2. Important: Please read before installing You may experience unexpected results if you have third-party system software modifications installed, or if you have modified the operating system through other means. (This does not apply to normal application software installation.)The installation process should not be interrupted. If a power outage or other interruption occurs during installation, use the standalone installer (see below) from Apple Downloads to update.If issues occur during installation--for example, Software Update quits unexpectedly--please see this document. Installation You have two...

Tired of viruses, lost files and the 'blue screen of death'? In the first of two articles about waving goodbye to Windows, John Dodds switches to Apple's OSX It was the sight of a friend's new company laptop on his study desk that did it. It had only a 12-inch screen, and the keyboard was tiny and cramped; it just wouldn't work for a non-touch typist like me. It seemed like miniaturisation gone mad - but it also emphasised the sheer bulkiness and age of my three-year-old Gateway desktop running Windows 98. Lately, like the majority of Windows users, I...

[Read from the bottom up; each paragraph was posted in reverse order as Jobs spoke.]Macworld Expo keynote coverage recapby Peter Cohen, pcohen@maccentral.comJanuary 7, 2003 12:00 pm ET MacCentral's coverage of Steve Jobs' keynote address from Macworld Expo has concluded. Please visit our home page for more news from the show. The coverage below is presented in reverse chronological order, with the oldest content at the bottom of the page. "What's driving us is one simple thing, and that's innovation." Jobs says that 2003 is "the year of the notebook for Apple." Displayed video and TV ads showing off new PowerBooks....