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Overheated 2 weeks out of warranty
Member Review Cooling system in this this is horrid, doesn't work, it burned out 2 weeks out of warranty. Thank you Dell, I'll make sure I never reccomend you again
[January 20, 2005, 10:33]
Lenovo recalls 205,000 ThinkPad batteries
News Lenovo is recalling hundreds of thousands of laptop batteries from customers around the world after several reported that their products had overheated. The recall was prompted by complaints from five customers that their laptops had overheated.
[March 1, 2007, 14:51]
Another one that overheats
Member Review Bought my 5150 secondhand (it was just over a year old at the time) It has always overheated even when on a hard surface - but on one occasion when I had it on my lap it heated up so much in 10 minutes that it burnt my leg - I still have a scorch...
[November 2, 2006, 22:40]
IBM BladeCenter: The right choice
White Papers Review the brochure for more about how BladeCenter integrates servers, storage and networking and is an alternative to sprawling racks and overheated server rooms. Read IBM's brochure for information on the advantages of IBM BladeCenter, including...
[January 15, 2009, 14:22]
Lessons in obsolescence
Leader This tiny slab of overheated plastic helped kick-start a generation of IT experts — and sold in the millions. Twenty-five years ago, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched. Yet when Amstrad took over the product just four years later, their...
[April 24, 2007, 14:33]
Nokia hits out at WiMax
News The tech industry is getting overheated about the long-range broadband access technology WiMax, according to one Nokia exec. Markku Hollström, head of WiMax business programme at Nokia, said the technology had already been oversold: "WiMax is hype...
[October 14, 2005, 9:55]
5100 is a piece of garbage
Member Review It gets very overheated, makes a lot of noise and I have to restart it very often. Inspiron 5100 is a real piece of garbage. I bought it less than half a year ago, and I'm getting tired of its problems.
[May 6, 2005, 15:05]
Real geeks stay ahead
Leader The dinosaurs must have snorted in derision at the first mammals - curiously small, fuzzy and overheated, they had none of the attributes of real lizards. Evolution is no respecter of seniority, and is unmoved by questions of good taste.
[August 3, 2005, 14:00]
Microsoft is not alone in chip woes
News Now we know — the graphics chip, designed in-house, chronically overheated and eventually gave up the ghost. Recently, Microsoft's problem with the Xbox's infamous Red Ring Of Death resulted in a billion-dollar bill.
[June 16, 2008, 14:52]
O2 recalls 140,000 handsets over fire risk
News An O2 spokeswoman told ZDNet UK that three customers had contacted the company to report that their X1 had overheated while charging. Mobile operator O2 is recalling over 100,000 of its X1 mobile phones after customers reported that their handsets...
[March 23, 2006, 13:45]
HP chills out datacentres
News Keeping datacentres cool is important because overheated computers can lose data or crash. Hewlett-Packard is taking a simulation technology out of its labs and using it to help companies cool off equipment-packed datacentres, easing the growing...
[March 5, 2003, 12:26]
Bangalore, Mumbai lose their outsourcing lustre
News Over the last two or three years, labour markets in particularly Bangalore and Mumbai have become overheated. India's traditional outsourcing centres appear to be falling out of favour. According to Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), outsourcing...
[January 8, 2009, 8:35]
HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries
News There were two separate reports of batteries that "overheated and ruptured, resulting in flames/fire that caused minor property damage" but no injuries, according to a report from the US's Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is cooperating...
[May 15, 2009, 13:07]
Michael Dell: Exploding batteries are Sony's fault
News Dell recalled the batteries last month after several of its laptops overheated and caught fire. Dell founder and chairman Michael Dell has denied that the way his company constructs its PCs played a part in a spate of battery-related fires and...
[September 14, 2006, 12:35]
Friday
Blog But I bet that every step of the way, the people who made those illegal decisions thought they had to do it for company survival in an overheated and frankly bonkers market. Friday 28/06/2002 Spotting an embarrassing hole looming in the imperial...
[June 28, 2002, 17:44]
Google's results are no cause for concern
News However, it's hard to call this most recent quarter a hiccup, unless you're buying into the overheated expectations on Wall Street. Google investors can be a nervous bunch. The search giant disappointed Wall Street on Thursday, missing earnings...
[July 20, 2007, 11:12]
Markets fall in love with Linux
News One crowd, even at this early stage, considers the Linux arena to be an overheated niche that will quickly fill up and consolidate. Ever since Red Hat, a seller of Linux software, went public and rocketed skyward, investors have eagerly anticipated...
[December 7, 1999, 13:21]
Wednesday
Blog After much lexical analysis of the overheated stream of syllables coming out of the lad, I detect one repeated group of phonemes. Wednesday 4/12/2002 When it comes to keeping journalists supplied with news and review kit, different companies take...
[December 6, 2002, 16:20]
Steam age tech takes heat off chips
News One of the key discoveries in steam engine technology was that multiple small pipes in the boiler extracted heat far more efficiently than a single pipe. Now Californian company Cooligy is applying a similar idea to cooling high performance chips...
[October 8, 2003, 16:25]
xG shows off two-way radio
Blog After a while, the phone overheated and shut down. Remember our Floridian pals xG, with their ground-breaking voice over IP wireless system? Remember that they said recently that anyone who was a journalist or analyst could pop down to see them and...
[September 29, 2009, 20:15]
