Toshiba recalls 340,000 Sony laptop batteries
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| Last month Dell and Apple Computer recalled almost 6 million
| Sony-made notebook PC batteries saying they could produce smoke and
| catch fire.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6117010.html
Inefficient programming -> hot gear.
Brian May of Queen has recently complained about his boiling MacBook and
yelled at Apple for making it so.
http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssb.html
Also:
Fires and Laptops and Batteries, Oh My!
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| The dirty little secret of the PC industry is that most users don't need
| as much of the processing power and energy usage as they are presently
| consuming; the Windows / Intel cycle of creating an ever larger operating
| system which requires ever more processing power to use it is creating
| this situation. Users just are not aware of alternatives, and alternatives
| are not presented to them; there's big business in keeping them in the
| hamster wheel of hardware and software replacement. There's not enough of
| a sales story for people like Microsoft in saying their latest product
| will be more efficient in its use of resources, as opposed to having
| more novelty.
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http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=97
Hands on: Running Vista on a MacBook Pro
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| 'Since installing Vista, I have found that my MacBook Pro runs hot. No
| doubt Microsoft hasn't worked on power management issues that might affect
| Apple hardware, which leaves me to wonder whether I'm slowly cooking the
| motherboard of my laptop. It's not hot enough to fry an egg on the
| aluminum case, but my laptop is noticeably warmer than when I use Mac OS X.
| I've also noticed that battery life is substantially reduced. Once again,
| energy management for Apple hardware is not likely at the top of
| Microsoft's list. Once Apple writes updated drivers to work with Vista, I'd
| expect these issues to be addressed.'
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9003111
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