Here’s an interesting article from the Financial Times on a growing worldwide shortage of batteries for laptop computers.
A fire at a plant in South Korea that builds the batteries is largely to blame, apparently, for a shortage that could stretch into the fall of 2008.
As a result, laptop makers are allocating their existing supply of batteries to more expensive, higher margin laptops, leading low-cost portables — such as Asus’s super-popular Eee PC — to be in short supply.
It’s a good reminder that no matter how high-tech the industry, it can still fall victim to the most old-school of calamities.
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