Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries

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Jan said:
Poor Sony, so many problems they have, now also PS3 price,
and this....
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Screw 'em. I used to be a Sony fan, but I've tired of their constant
proprietary trickery, e.g. their memsticks.
 
chrisv said:
Screw 'em. I used to be a Sony fan, but I've tired of their constant
proprietary trickery, e.g. their memsticks.
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I have an old amd Sony laptop, it's better then my wifes Dell. It's a
PCG-FX215 as of this minute it has an uptime of 74 days crunching
RC5-72. Battery is taken out is running on the mains only, so any power
glitch it will go down. It's running Ubuntu at the moment, but I want
to switch it to Debian Etch. Never could get used to sudo, when I added
root, and a regular user I get all sorts of problems, like synaptic not
working. Not to mention I am upset at Ubuntu in general over their
treatment of Debian developers and not giving back.

I am a little confused, Dell is upset at Sony because it made the
batteries? Since when does Dell buy from Japan I thought it was all on
main land China? Maybe I will see if I can get a new set of batteries
for my wifes 600M, I can hope can't I. I think Dell is looking for a
scapegoat, hope it hurts their quarter as this is the month of back to
school buying.

Rthoreau
 
from the said:
Screw 'em. I used to be a Sony fan, but I've tired of their constant
proprietary trickery, e.g. their memsticks.
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Not to mention their music CD copy protection. Be a long time before I
forgive them that one ... and yeah, I used to be a fan too.
 
Screw 'em. I used to be a Sony fan, but I've tired of their constant
proprietary trickery, e.g. their memsticks.
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Well, I renounced Sony many years ago, because of bad service here,
then recently they put an American in charge, and I ordered a Sony
alarm clock / radio.
That one is still working, not a single other Sony product....
Dunno what to make of it.

My first Sony product was that tape recorder.. this one I think:
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/vintagetx/S101.jpg
traded it with somebody for a camera IIRC.... then traded the camera for a
car :-)

The alarm clock I will keep.

Would be nice if they started making quality again.
 
Rthoreau said:
I am a little confused, Dell is upset at Sony because it made the
batteries? Since when does Dell buy from Japan I thought it was all on
main land China?
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Sony can't make things in China? Where a company is based has little
to do with where the factories are.

Anyway, I believe that Taiwan is where a lot of (most?) laptops are
made. Maybe that's changed in the last few years...
 
Sony can't make things in China? Where a company is based has little
to do with where the factories are.

Anyway, I believe that Taiwan is where a lot of (most?) laptops are
made. Maybe that's changed in the last few years...
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My ThinkPad came (at least was shipped) from Hong Kong. Of course
it is a Lenovo. ;-)
 
My ThinkPad came (at least was shipped) from Hong Kong. Of course
it is a Lenovo. ;-)
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My new Dell laptop was assembled in Malaysia. I assume most of the
parts came from China, not including the major semiconductors (CPU,
chipset, RAM, etc).
 
Dell seeks to blame Sony over batterygate
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33682

Dell recalls 4.1m 'Zippo' laptop batteries | Reg Hardware
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/14/dell_laptop_recall/
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Well good on Dell for doing the right thing at least, though I suspect
it's something that SHOULD have been done a bit earlier. Now I wonder
if/when others with follow suit? Dell seems to have got the worst of
the press, but I doubt that they're the only one with exploding
batteries. Hopefully this will result in an improvement in quality
and quality control of Li-Ion batteries (hey, I can dream, right?).
 
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