Korean Air Bans Dell, Apple
- September 7th, 2006
- 2 Comments
The Korea Times is reporting that following a similar move by the Aussies at Qantas, Korean Air has banned Dell laptops and Apple Powerbooks and iBooks from its flights. The decision comes at the heels of recent widespread issues with exploding laptop batteries. Laptops from Sony, the makers of the questionable battery, remain unaffected because they were apparently using better, non-exploding batteries in their laptops.
Fortunately at least, Dell and Apple users can avoiding checking their laptop by simply removing the batteries. This is certainly a more agreeable option, because checking your electronics as baggage seldom ends up favorably. Also, it’s unclear why this affects only Powerbooks and iBooks, because MacBooks have been exploding just as efficiently as the other two. Anyone have a theory about this oversight?
Edit: Upon further reading, it seems seems that the oversight was mine. MacBook batteries were apparently recalled for reasons other than explosions. Sorry for the confusion.
Korean Air bans Apple, Dell notebooks on board [Think Secret via Engadget]
LKM (Who am I?)
2 years ago
>Macbooks have been exploding just as efficiently
>as the other two. Anyone have a theory about
>this oversight?
Yeah, here! I have one! My theory is that you’re wrong. Only iBooks and PowerBooks are affected by the “Sony-Recall.” Some MacBook batteries have been recalled, too, but not because they are dangerous, but merely because they did not live up to Apple’s quality expectations (I have one of these, and I was allowed to keep and continue using my “broken” battery, which works just fine).
No MacBooks have exploded.