Sony laptops being recalled..

meritmaster · April 11, 2014

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/11/if-you-have-a-sony-laptop-you-need-to-read-the-warning-the-company-sent-out/

Sony recently released a warning entailing details details of a recall directed towards their VAIO line of lap tops, due to battery issues.

"The Vaio Fit 11A is a notebook with an 11.6 inch display that you can flip over so it lays flat against the keyboard, allowing it to be converted into a tablet. Sony launched the Fit 11 in February with a starting price of $799"

The battery seems to be in danger of melting, and starting fires.

The battery pack is built into this system since it's a laptop/tablet configuration, but you are forced to send back your unit due to the immovability of the battery.

Sony has contacted over 25,000 purchasers of the laptop for a recall; only 497 of which, are from the US.

The VAIO brand, and Sony in the computer industry has been on a downhill slope for many years now. I remember 15 years ago VAIO was a upper class brand for computing laptops, but sales plummeted in the last 10 years.

Their laptop business is so bad that they even had to sell off the brand: http://smallbiztrends.com/2014/02/sony-to-sell-vaio-to-jip.html

So it seems as sony is a mess right now in the computer industry.