“Sony says it is recalling 440,000 units of Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to faulty parts that could trigger overheating,” The Associated Press reports.
“Sony Corp. said Thursday that the recalls involve 19 models of Vaio TZ laptop series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008, including three export models,” AP reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Like all other non-Apple PC box assemblers such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc., Sony offers OS-limited products that are incapable of running Mac OS X and many best-in-class applications such as iLife ’08. Only OS-unlimited Apple Macs are capable of running all major operating systems and offer users the ability to run the world’s largest software library.
In the U.S., the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Approximately 73,000 OS-limited VAIO TZ-series laptops are affected. The units were sold by SonyStyle stores and Web site, authorized electronics retailers, and authorized business-to-business dealers nationwide from July 2007 through August 2008 for between US$1,700 and $4,000.
More info via the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission here.
Will this issue get as much coverage as the pulling of a couple of outdated ipods that are no longer being sold fro the Japanese market because of a fire risk?
I love AppleCare. It has replaced 2 magsafe power cords, 1 super drive, 1 keyboard and upper casing, and I still have one year left. It was the best value I’ve ever received.
OMG, Sony is standing where Apple was under Spindler, in 1995, with the 5300 Powerbooks. Beleaguered Sony, anybody?
Is it far to call them OS limited when Apple is the reason they don’t run OSX?
@ Me:
Yes. Yes, it is.
@Me
It doesn’t matter the reason, the Vaio is OS-limited, it still is.
So, yes, it is not only fair, but also absolutely correct “to call them OS limited”. Because they are.
The only reason that other manufacturers sell so-called OS-Limited machines is that Apple purposely requires a Mac to run OS X. I know this is a partisan news distributor, but come on, there’s no reason to be misleading like this. It’s not like Dell, HP, MS, etc. don’t screw up enough on their own…
@ “I’m WIth “Me””:
Wait a second. Are non-Macs OS-limited (for whatever reason)? Yes, yes they are. That’s what MDN said. So, what is misleading about it? The “reasons” are debatable (I suppose, whatever), but what they said is not debatable.
Thanks for playing though.
Hard to argue that Windows PC’s are OS limited.
But then again, Windows PC’s CAN do something that your Mac can’t…
…join a botnet.
I agree with “Me.” You can’t fault Sony for not being Apple, any more than someone could fault Steve Jobs for not being British, French, Japanese, etc…
MDN has outdone itself again. I quote “Sony offers OS-limited products that are incapable of running Mac OS X and many best-in-class applications such as iLife ’08”. Sony laptops are more than capable of running OS X. Only Apple prevents it.
Don’t be asses MDN.
OS – limited? what a childish judgement. You couldn’t come up with anything else? Grow up.
The issue is the recall, not the OS.
Why doesn’t Sony write their own OS. It’s easy to just make hardware, when you don’t have to develop the OS that makes it do things. That’s how Mike Dell got into business – off the shelf parts, assemble them, add MS DOS, or Win, or some other off-the-shelf OS, throw it out there on the market. All they have to do is just design a form-factor. Apple managed to carve out a niche for their hardware by including the MacOS. Their success or failure was always in their own hands, and now third-party box assemblers would like nothing more than to get their hands on MacOS, and undercut Apple’s hardware business. Sorry… ain’t gonna happen.
Seems like a lack of creativity on the company’s part is the reason the VAIO or any PC for that matter is OS limited. Not tomention restrictive licensing agreements from M$.
Only really a problem if you need any of the short list of software that’s OSX only. To run the rest Mac users have to boot up Windows like the rest of us.