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Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Following multiple incidents of sony-made laptop batteries exploding, Dell and Apple have both initiated recall programs so customers can exchange their possibly defective batteries for a replacement.
News reports on the whole affair:
https://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8JMU7R00.htm?sub=apn_home_up%26chan=db
https://www.dell.com/content/topics/globa...l=en&s=corp
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4800947.stm
To check if your laptop is entitled for an exchange check out the following links:
https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/
https://support.apple.com/ibook_powerbook/batteryexchange/
EDITED_BY: Lowan (1156492186)
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This made me laugh when I heard about it.
Just like that.
Thankfully, I think there have only been about 6 in all of the defective batteries that have so far burst into flame.
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464 posts
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
And Sony have just lost their lawsuit over Dual-Shock so PS3 is going to be crap without that. Now they are losing loads of money because of the pay out to Dell and Apple. I think the thing to kill the electronic giant would be if Blu-Ray go arse up!
EDITED_BY: Lowan (1156492929)
Why let your body be a temple? When it can be a theme park?
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15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
*crosses fingers*
I like seeing giants slayed.
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464 posts
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Me too, but I quite like the Sony Ericsson range and think of all the job losses as well.
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Geek-enviro-hippy priest
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Location: Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Sony isn't going anywhere bcause of this. Not when they get $64 billion a year.
Are they actually paying out to Apple and Dell? The said at one point that it wasn't anything to do with them.
There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
Pooh-Bah
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Location: Bristol !!!!!!, United Kingdom
All our work laptop batteries have been recalled, thankfully our home laptop is ok.
Gayle.....!
3,149 posts
Location: London
The name of the affected line is "Zippo batteries"
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
3,149 posts
Location: London
and yes, Sony are paying out lots and lots. I reckon they'll be ok though
Written by: The Register
Analyst Roger Kay at Endpoint Technologies has Sony's costs pegged somewhere between $200m and $300m, while Macquarie analyst David Gibson says Sony will shell out up to $260m. Those ranges didn't stop Reuters from claiming $430m and attributing it to no one.
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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464 posts
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sony said they will "help".
https://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/15/HNsonydellrecall_1.html
I love the analogy the engineer used to downplay the defective batteries. The thing about impregnating women.
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Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
I have the advantage of having an old
laptop! I'd dearly love it if it got recalled and I got a new one!
Never going to happen though!
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Location: ffidrac
Mine's actually a whole Sony laptop, i'll let you know if the whole thing explodes... but i don't reckon on round of defective batteries is going to make a huge dent in Sony's profit since their production covers just about every type of electrical device in existance...
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