Sony recalls 440,000 VAIO TZ laptops worldwide

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gogogo at 11:36 AM JST - 5th September

More information!? If you have one of these laptops where do you take it?
PASHA_51 at 12:16 PM JST - 5th September

Sony should advise his users how to avoid over heating before these are taken back for modifications in system.
rajakumar at 12:35 PM JST - 5th September

Laptop industry still in infancy, they will get real good in ten years or sooner like the big mobile phone industry.

The massive Mobile phone industry at infancy, was also plagued with many woes,which have been slowly eradicated ,to the high class products of today.
mikihouse at 02:43 PM JST - 5th September

sony maybe making esthetically designed laptops, but honestly there is no quality. easily breakdown because they use cheap generic electronics parts , covers unhinged, and yes they put every proprietary locks in almost all their products...BOOO why don't you just concentrate in making LCDs and video cameras
USNinJapan2 at 03:10 PM JST - 5th September

mikihouse

I've got two VAIO laptops and have never had any problems with either. I'm typing on one of them now and absolutely love it. No complaints from me...
mikihouse at 04:03 PM JST - 5th September

got 3 vaio laptops, all of them junk
cwhite at 05:15 PM JST - 5th September

my Panasonic Let's Note can fry eggs
imgold at 05:46 PM JST - 5th September

My IBM thinkpad... cool as a cucumber ! Sony has been producing junk for years now. When will the lemmings cease their preoccupation with the Sony brand. The company has become a joke, a fossil, a representative of what Japan Inc has become.
freakashow at 12:15 AM JST - 6th September

mikihouse:

got 3 vaio laptops, all of them junk

What the hell are you doing with three VAIO laptops? Um, I'm no rocket scientist, but if I were you and found one Sony VAIO to be junk, I wouldn't go out and buy another, and another. Duh? As for me, I have only one Sony VAIO laptop and it works fine. The only thing that has happened is that after six years, my backlight burned out. I called the service center and they picked it up, replaced the backlight, and even cleaned it up a bit and sent it back to me all for the price of 11,000 yen; which is much cheaper than going out and buy a whole new laptop, since this baby is now good to go for at least another five to six years.
mushroomcloud at 01:40 AM JST - 6th September

19 models? Shoddy design.
kokuryu at 04:21 AM JST - 6th September

I have an HP that puts out heat that is hot enough to be a flamethrower... Some of these laptops have horrible heat control.
cwhite at 02:16 PM JST - 6th September

fanless ones are great with no noise, but damm they get hot.
borscht at 01:02 AM JST - 7th September

mikihouse said

got 3 vaio laptops, all of them junk

Reminds me of an old Volvo commercial wherein the non-Volvo car owner proudly states: "The GMFORDCHEVY F400 is Great. I've had 12 of them." And the Volvo owner says, if they are so great, why did you have to buy 12?

I use my laptop as a heating pad when I get an upset stomach. I can surf the net and get tender loving care at the same time. Cool. (Or at least not 'ugly.')
mikihouse at 01:03 AM JST - 7th September

my first vaio got too hot it melted my motherboard, the second one was broken at the hinge (they use cheap plastic) and the third failed also at the hinge. I got so frustrated with sony that I decided to open one and disassemble the laptop and yup, these are using not intel chipsets but VIA (one of the cheapest brand ever), and yes the heatsink was not even a copper, its part metal and aluminum, the HDD is positioned too close to the CPU and it gets hot really fast (but they got slick design not like Fujitsu whose design is...bland and unattractive). Well I have now an IBM and no problems so far.
freakashow at 10:27 AM JST - 7th September

I'd have to say that the Panasonic Toughbook is one of the best laptops around. A friend of mine has one and I've seen it in action. It is quite sturdy and durable. Toshiba and Dell offers some great laptops too. So I would say I would choose to buy from either of those three.