Apple recalls 1.8 million laptop batteries Power devices said to cause overheating risk; Battery-maker Sony's stock slides as it says recent recalls will cost between $172 million and $258 million. August 24 2006: 1:52 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Apple is recalling 1.8 million battery packs for its iBook and PowerBook notebook computers due to an overheating problem, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Thursday. The cells in the lithium-ion batteries in the iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 computers - the only two models affected by the recall - were produced by Sony. Apple (down $0.30 to $67.01, Charts) stock was just slightly lower after the recall announcement, but shares of Sony (down $1.04 to $43.38, Charts) fell about 2.5 percent. Apple has received nine reports of batteries overheating, including two reports of minor burns from the computers, the CPSC said. Sony said its recent recalls - 1.8 million batteries for Apple and 4.1 million for Dell announced last week - will cost the company between $172 million and $258 million. Sony said it anticipates no further recalls of battery packs using these particular battery cells, and said it has introduced additional safeguards into its battery manufacturing process to address the problem. Apple said the recall affected 1.1 million notebook batteries in the United States and 700,000 batteries abroad.

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