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/

On a sunny day (14 Aug 2006 21:26:19 -0700) it happened "YKhan"
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>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....

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.

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

Bitstring <(E-Mail Removed)>, from the
wonderful person chrisv <(E-Mail Removed)> 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.

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On a sunny day (Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:26:35 -0500) it happened chrisv
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:

>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.

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...

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed)lid 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. ;-)

--
Keith

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:57:50 -0400, Keith <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>(E-Mail Removed) 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

On 14 Aug 2006 21:26:19 -0700, "YKhan" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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?).

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