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What is the big deal?
By tlreaves on 10/16/2006 6:56:34 PM , Rating: 2
Does it not bother anybody that you have a better chance of being hit by lightning than having your battery blow-up, catch on fire, smoke, or otherwise? You're more than six times more likely to get struck by lightning than have you battery blow up, and when was the last time your heard a complaint about the number of lightning strikes?

Thats 1:700,000 vs 1:4,300,000.

Give me a break with the crying about batteries. Sony decided to be nice and correct for a statistical anomaly and are getting crucified. What I don't hear about in these melting laptop articles is how well taken care of the computers were when they melted (exhaust clogged, dusty inside, ambient temp, etc...)

P.S. I'm not a Sony fanboy, just tired of media hype.

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RE: What is the big deal?
By MikeO on 10/17/2006 4:38:13 AM , Rating: 2
What is the big deal?

When Dell made the initial recall of ~4 million units...


...and the number is now doubled. I'd say that's a big deal.

RE: What is the big deal?
By Zurtex on 10/17/2006 5:23:26 AM , Rating: 2
How do you work those numbers?

Are you talking about the total number of laptop owners / by the total number of explosions.

Because that's just skewed, you seem to be saying out of the total number of recalls there have only have been 2 "batter[ies] blow-up, catch on fire, smoke, or otherwise"

Yet there have been more photos / videos on the web of individual incidents. I'm not saying all of those actually happened, they may well not have, but where are you getting this number from?

Furthermore, most of the battery recalls aren't due to hazards, just that the batteries occasionally randomly cut out when they are not supposed to, or otherwise behave in an odd manner.


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