Sony Recalls Half A Million Vaio Laptops
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that companies should stop making products that spark, smoke, explode or in any other way use the power of combustibility to wound, kill or panic their customers. Crazy, I know, but it seems about time that someone stood up to Sony, Apple, and everybody else who insists upon selling electronics that will scorch your groin area.
My pro-groin agenda has been attacked by more than 440,000 TZ series Sony Vaio laptops, which Sony says have incorrectly installed wires and a flawed circuit board that may team up for a testicle-searing overheating situation. A number of people have been burnt by the faulty Vaios, all of which were sold between May 2007 and July 2008. There have been 209 reports of overheating.
What's worse - Sony is targeting the whole world! Nearly 373,000 of those 440,000 recalled Vaios were sold to 48 countries.
In all honesty, this is an unfortunate bit of business for Sony, who saw a previous laptop immolation in 2006 when a Sony-made faulty battery began exploding in Dell, Hitachi, Appl, Lenovo and Toshiba laptops. Sony lost a lot of money that year, and having 440,000 laptops recalled for similar issues (albeit totally different root causes) can't be a good sign for 2008.
Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops [BBC News]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, In the News on 4 September 2008
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Within one hour of its unboxing, The One became the undisputed ruler of Tiny's entire home. Buy this or despair.
Next thing you know Sony's going to start recalling PS3s for the same thing, though why anyone would hold a running PS3 in their groin is beyond me...