Sony VAIO Users Get Burned, Sony Recalls 440,000 units

[JMcEntegart]

Sony has released an official statement informing customers that the company has issued a recall of the VIAO TZ following a reported 200 instances of users’ laptops overheating, with 15 of those occurring in the US and one user suffering minor burns.
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[terror112]

owned... Again. When will they learn how to make a quality product?

 

[killerb255]

At least Sony's owning up to it...

Toshiba, during the P4 Prescott days, had made a lot of laptops that had poor cooling and overheat...

 

[ravenware]

It's amazing how much money companies will spend on research, development and marketing for a product but skimp on the parts and labor to assemble said product. Sony is definitely no stranger to this, i.e the PS2.

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

One word: ouch
for sony and customers.

 

[Guest]

Sony did this before in 2001 and I was one of the victims. They produced a whole series of laptops with badly soldered ram slots which caused the computer to freeze. When I googled that problem at that time I was
shocked to see thousands of complains similar to mine. And only thing
Sony did was to say change whole motherboard for several hundred
dollars. There were some guys offering to do it for something like 200
dollars.

 

[fulle]

I suppose the lawyers must have decided the losses possible from law suits related to fires and liability suits were higher than those from the recall... Good call, narrator Joe/Jack!