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Friday, 09 May 2008 Apple pays up over sparking power adaptors

Apple to pay up to $79 to as many as 2.3 million US PowerBook and iBook customers

Jonny Evans

Apple has agreed to pay up to $79 to as many as 2.3 million customers to resolve claims that some of its power adaptors were prone to spark.

Bloomberg reports customers who purchased certain replacement adapters for PowerBooks and iBooks to be eligible for the settlement, according to documents filed 25 January in a US court, approved by a Judge in late March.

The move is Apple’s response to a class action filed in 2006. This claimed Apple misrepresented problems with the power adapters.T

The adapter "dangerously frays, sparks and prematurely fails to work," the plaintiffs said in court filings.

The company recalled about 570,000 power adapters sold worldwide with PowerBook G3s in 2001, following reported overheating. Under the deal, Apple will pay cash to customers who purchased a power adaptor to replace a failed one.

Final approval of the settlement should be put in place in early September.

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