Question: With all of the exploding batteries lately (Apple, Dell, Toshiba, IBM/Lenovo (possibly), etc. Have you seen any reports of Sony laptops exploding?
Does Sony "cherry-pick" the A-grade batteries for their own use and send the B-grade and lower ones to their clients?
If so, what kind of liability issues does that raise. Sony HAS done some questionable things in the past knowingly.;)
I just restored a screwed-up Vaio laptop using the restore CD set that came with the purchase and Microsoft can't even verify that it's legitimate. Updates are not forthcoming at this point until I call them and get it straightened out.
I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FX310 laptop running Suse 10.0/Windows XP dual boot (Linux is the default).
All hardware on this machine is functional under Linux. It's even running a wireless connection with no more configuration that putting in the security settings. Hardware was no big problem.
The big problem is trying to install/update apps. VLC 0.8.5 and Audacity 1.2.4 are still not installed due to an undending dependency hell. I've downloaded and installed the packages that they ask for but am still getting dependecy messages.
For one brief shinging moment I even had DVDs playing on this thing but then some update broke it and I haven't been able to get it back.
Until things like this are cleared up I can't see switching over entirely. No matter how much I dislinke Microsoft (Disclaimer: I used to do support for them and did an internship at their campus).
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Question: With all of the exploding batteries lately (Apple, Dell, Toshiba, IBM/Lenovo (possibly), etc. Have you seen any reports of Sony laptops exploding?
;)
Does Sony "cherry-pick" the A-grade batteries for their own use and send the B-grade and lower ones to their clients?
If so, what kind of liability issues does that raise. Sony HAS done some questionable things in the past knowingly.
President Bush will issue a signing statement and it will "okay" for the US to make unilateral and unannounced changes at will.
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No, they'd pay in Microsoft coupons good for more software
I just restored a screwed-up Vaio laptop using the restore CD set that came with the purchase and Microsoft can't even verify that it's legitimate. Updates are not forthcoming at this point until I call them and get it straightened out.
Just effing lovely.
I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FX310 laptop running Suse 10.0/Windows XP dual boot (Linux is the default).
All hardware on this machine is functional under Linux. It's even running a wireless connection with no more configuration that putting in the security settings. Hardware was no big problem.
The big problem is trying to install/update apps. VLC 0.8.5 and Audacity 1.2.4 are still not installed due to an undending dependency hell. I've downloaded and installed the packages that they ask for but am still getting dependecy messages.
For one brief shinging moment I even had DVDs playing on this thing but then some update broke it and I haven't been able to get it back.
Until things like this are cleared up I can't see switching over entirely. No matter how much I dislinke Microsoft (Disclaimer: I used to do support for them and did an internship at their campus).