“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.