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Sony statement on overheating of New Vaio laptops

lisbon_lions · 2010-06-30 11:02:33

Just saw this and thought i'd post it up here for anyone that got a Sony Vaio recently: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0630/sony.html

30-06-2010 11:02am

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Just saw this and thought i'd post it up here for anyone that got a Sony Vaio recently:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0630/sony.html

Sony VAIO laptops may overheat, cause burns

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 11:36

Sony has issued a warning to customers that a system glitch affecting its VAIO laptop computers may cause overheating and possible burns.

The company said a heat-monitoring chip in some of its VAIO 'F' and 'C' series models, launched in January this year, could be defective, leading to possible overheating, a company statement said.

Although the defect has not been known to cause personal injuries, the firm said it received a total of 39 complaints from overseas customers saying that the shape of their computers became distorted from overheating.

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The glitch affects 535,000 laptops worldwide. Nearly half are in the US and the remainder in Japan, Europe and China.

Sony said it is offering consumers a software application download to correct the malfunction.

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