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Sony is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of wiring faults that could cause overheating. Sony said wires have been put in the wrong position near the hinge, while a flaw in the circuit board that controls the screen also may cause overheating…
Sony has received 209 reports of overheating worldwide, including seven incidents where people received minor burns, Associated Press reported.
John touched on this on Tech5. It ain’t just bad batteries, folks. Someone screwed up the assembly design.
This is not what should reach the marketplace as everyday production from one of the leading consumer electronics firms on the planet.
And Sony’s stock crashed to a 3-year low.
#2, Hill,
Call you a moran and one is getting the point even if not totally.
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Anyone who has ever had small children, (Hill’s mother excepted)can testify, “shit happens”. But it is always so much better when it isn’t your kid.
I’m starting to think that Sony is a pretty crummy company.
Sony has failed when it started building their products in China and Taiwan. It does seem like their is more problems with laptops lately. It could be the added heat is finally causing problems. The Nvidia graphic chips, batteries over heating, and just plan old hot laptops. Its very interesting how all laptops are now using the same hardware. Even Apple has basically the same hardware. So when you have failures you can certainly see that it will affect a lot of units.
Sony’s over heating right now appears to be a simple bad location of wire in assembly.
This I think is the drawback to laptops over desktops.Manufactures may have to give up battery life for better cooling. Or throttle down the Video and CPU on battery much more.
Pretty much everything in the whole world is made in one factory. The next line to the Vaio makes leaf blowers, the one next to that is doing the Dita Von Deas Wonder Bra.
So you’re saying the next Vaio I buy might have a D-cup on it?
I used to be impressed with the Vaio brand name, until I actually saw and tried to use one.
Microsoft could certainly learn a thing or two thousand from Sony about effective marketing.