Apparently, following Dell’s recent recall of many of its laptop batteries, our friend Apple has recalled 1 million iBook and PowerBook batteries, due to a fire hazard issue.

We haven’t seen the exploding iBooks yet (along the lines of exploding Dell machines), but the potential is there, apparently, such that Apple are recalling the offending batteries.

Are Apple and Dell using rubbish batteries or something? That’s two of the biggest laptop retailers issuing battery recalls in a very short period of time. Same supplier, do you reckon?

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