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Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries
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...laptop_recall/ |
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Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries
On a sunny day (14 Aug 2006 21:26:19 -0700) it happened "YKhan"
wrote in .com: Dell seeks to blame Sony over batterygate http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33682 Poor Sony, so many problems they have, now also PS3 price, and this.... |
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Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries
Jan Panteltje wrote:
Poor Sony, so many problems they have, now also PS3 price, and this.... 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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Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries
chrisv wrote: Jan Panteltje wrote: Poor Sony, so many problems they have, now also PS3 price, and this.... Screw 'em. I used to be a Sony fan, but I've tired of their constant proprietary trickery, e.g. their memsticks. 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 |
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Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries
Bitstring , from the
wonderful person chrisv said Jan Panteltje wrote: Poor Sony, so many problems they have, now also PS3 price, and this.... Screw 'em. I used to be a Sony fan, but I've tired of their constant proprietary trickery, e.g. their memsticks. 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. -- GSV Three Minds in a Can Google may be your friend, but groups.google.com posters definitely aren't. |
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Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries
On a sunny day (Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:26:35 -0500) it happened chrisv
wrote in : Jan Panteltje wrote: Poor Sony, so many problems they have, now also PS3 price, and this.... Screw 'em. I used to be a Sony fan, but I've tired of their constant proprietary trickery, e.g. their memsticks. 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. |
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Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries
Rthoreau wrote:
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? 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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Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:57:50 -0400, Keith wrote:
In article , says... Rthoreau wrote: 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? 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... My ThinkPad came (at least was shipped) from Hong Kong. Of course it is a Lenovo. ;-) 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). -- Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer |
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Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries
On 14 Aug 2006 21:26:19 -0700, "YKhan" wrote:
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...laptop_recall/ 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?). ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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