Who would have thought a serial of deadening laptop battery recalls could explode into such mass craze ? Flaming tempers are running rearing at Sony executives . Though they ’ve traditionally made some live electronics , it has n’t paid off in theirbattery recall – now totaling well over 7 million units . Dell , Apple , Toshiba , IBM / Lenovo , Fujitsu and Hitachi are all taking heat from their guilt trip by assonyiation . Check out our warm Malus pumila Proto-Indo European graph , and then hit the jump for a very particular frankenreview ( hint : we really commence him into a speedo ) .
“ This is an exclusive club that decided to habituate Sony batteries in their laptops which unknowingly causes big ba - da booms . ”
“ Combined , the company have recalled more than 7.9 million battery . ”
“ Dell has so far received six reports of overheating unit of measurement that caused property terms , but no injuries . ”
“ The odds on my balls view flaming from my laptop computer irrupt ? Very low , and I ’m just willing to chance the lives of my unborn children so I can have zero - gap internet exercise . ”
– perhaps the companies could place the new ( non - weiner - roasting ) bombardment first .
“ Dell had only six incidents over [ 22 ] million … units , [ an analyst ] say , but it ’s ‘ a dangerous situation ’ . ”
“ Let ’s take over that over the next three years , a full 60 notebook computer will detonate if left with at - jeopardy barrage . Doing the mathematics : That ’s a 1 in 210,000 opportunity per class of a recalled assault and battery detonate . Over the next two months , should you decide to look a bit to exchange your battery : The odds are 1 in 1,260,000 . ”
“ Odds of being strike by lightning ( though not inevitably dying ) in a feed yr : 1 in 400,000 . ”
“ We are support Dell ’s recall , ” [ Sony ] pronounce . “ There will be fiscal assistance and we are sharing engineering datum and both doing further research . ” He declined to specify just how much assistance Sony would provide . ”
– We are guessing quite a bite , and it ’s more than just “ emotional reinforcement ” .
“ [ for Toshiba ] failure from the … feign units will not ensue in a perfervid death for the laptop computer . They would simply bomb to charge and store power . ”
– die to charge , and then combust the user ’s legs off .
“ So we ’re waiting for a flight in the United lounge at LAX , … when suddenly this hombre comes unravel the wrong mode up the jetway , push other boarding rider out of the elbow room , he speedily drops his laptop [ IBM ] on the floor and the affair immediately flares up like a giant pyrotechnic … I do n’t commend seeing any IBM laptops microwave themselves yet on Gizmodo , just Macbooks and Dells with Sony batteries , but it was a close call even so . ”
“ intercrossed railroad car and power tools , however , by and large habituate more traditional batteries , in part because of the risk of explosion . ”
– Though , even that is changing .
Sources
CNET Asia
Reuters
Japan Today
Something Awful
TechYahoo
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