Any idea when/if Sony is going to start recalling VAIO batteries?

[acemcmac]

My poor GF got baited long before I ever met her into buying a $2500 Sony laptop. Now she's affraid to get near it thinking that it might burst into flames. It seems to me that it's only a matter of time before it's announced that sony was affected by its own battery screw up... I was just wondering if there was any word on when we might expect an announcement...

 

[ShotgunSteven]

As long as the battery came with the laptop, she should be OK. Sony only tries to burn down the homes of people that own non-VAIO laptops.

 

[jlbenedict]

Toshiba, I believe, just announced about 340,000 recalls this morning..

So, yeah.. Come on Sony.. stop holding out..

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Sony proclaimed the reason Dell was having issues was because they didn't design them properly, and didn't have a saftey check on the battery to make sure that it wasn't getting too hot.

Sony provides batteries to almost all major laptop manufacturers, and only Apple/Dell had issues with their batches.

They could start going up, but I wouldn't sweat it too much. You can get a phatty settlement if it does. My Dell wasn't affected by the recall

edit: Sweet, Sony was pulling more PR BS like I thought when I read that article

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
Sony proclaimed the reason Dell was having issues was because they didn't design them properly, and didn't have a saftey check on the battery to make sure that it wasn't getting too hot.

Sony provides batteries to almost all major laptop manufacturers, and only Apple/Dell had issues with their batches.

They could start going up, but I wouldn't sweat it too much. You can get a phatty settlement if it does. My Dell wasn't affected by the recall

edit: Sweet, Sony was pulling more PR BS like I thought when I read that article

A Ford Excursion's cruise control already took out one of her homes. She'd probably have a horiffic mental break if her laptop took out this one. It's not about the money. She needs some answers.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
Sony proclaimed the reason Dell was having issues was because they didn't design them properly, and didn't have a saftey check on the battery to make sure that it wasn't getting too hot.

Sony provides batteries to almost all major laptop manufacturers, and only Apple/Dell had issues with their batches.

They could start going up, but I wouldn't sweat it too much. You can get a phatty settlement if it does. My Dell wasn't affected by the recall

edit: Sweet, Sony was pulling more PR BS like I thought when I read that article

Nope. And I've seen pictures of at least one exploded thinkpad and Vaio.

 

[acemcmac]

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