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HP Recalls 135,000 Laptop Batteries
caffeine_monkey writes "AP is reporting that Hewlett Packard is recalling 135,000 notebook batteries because they occasionally overheat and melt. Affected models are HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario, HP Compaq and Compaq Evo. More details are on the HP support site. From their FAQ: Is it safe to buy HP notebooks? Absolutely. HP fully stands behind the products it makes."
Guys, I think it's time to avoid non home made products. May be companies like HP will learn a thing or two. I am I asking for too much?
Nice self congratulating anecdote, you underachieving sociopath.
I don't think i single apple fan thinks apple is perfect, but it's the zeal in which people will bash apple essentially for the heck of it that gets to us. their is a fundamental truth that ram go's bad, lcd's/batterys can have manufacturing defects and plastic scratches. the sooner people accept that as fact. apple is by far not the second coming but it's better than the competition in allot of areas, if people stopped bashing them on things they cant control i wouldn't mind, legitimate criticism i have no problem with, but even the highest quality manufacturers have flaws in their products and if apple has sold a million ipod nano's in a few weeks then even if .1% of nano's have a flaw then thats 1000 angry customers saying the product is fatally flawed.
give a mac to a average joe and a wintel pc to another and any linux distro you care to choose to a third compare the problems each joe gets it's astounding, linux is too damn confusing windows just collapses into chaos and mac os x just trundles on.
now you may say everyone is not an average joe and we can deal with windows/linux's problems but frankly I don't want to, i use my windows/linux pc for games and cisco labs only nothing elce. I have better things to do with my time like refresh slashdot like a freak and get first posts.
if you need windows as you just play games or run a windows app whoopty do go use it, or if your a speed rendering/hosting/servering freak run linux i'm not suggesting you shouldn't, but for 90% of people Mac OS X is the perfect platform.
damn, i probably just proved your point but i'll post it anyway.....