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Old September 4, 2008, 10:51 PM
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Default Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops
So if you went out and bought a Sony Vaio (I dout there are a lot of you)... here is a recall for you

According to PCMag it's 73,000 laptops... and according to msn & CBC its 440,000 laptops... slight discrepancy between the #'s.

So if you bought one lately, might want to check this out!

73,000 notebooks
Sony Recalls Thousands of Vaio PCs Over Burn Risk - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

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Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops for overheating danger : News : Tech & Gadgets : Sympatico / MSN
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Old September 4, 2008, 10:55 PM
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Check here to see if you are effected, it's only TZ series notebooks and not every model is a problem.

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Old September 5, 2008, 04:42 AM
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Heh... Sony makes some mighty fine LCD tvs............ :)

(Had a friend with a vaio that was a major POS.... :) )
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