Sony Recalls Laptops Due to Overheating

Sony's recalling approximately 535,000 Vaio laptops because of overheating problems.

Although Sony says it hasn't recorded any complaints from Vaio customers in Japan, it has received 39 complaints from customers in other countries. So far, no injuries have been reported. The problem apparently stems from a malfunction in the temperature control. The overheating could occur when a user plugs in an adapter to charge when a battery in the laptop is nearly used up, Sony said.

Sony is offering users a software application download designed to fix the flaw, and has notified registered users by e-mail of the service. After incurring annual losses for two straight years, Sony expects to return to the black in the current financial year to March 2011, forecasting a net profit of 50 billion yen on revenue of 7.6 trillion yen.

This isn't the first time Sony has dealt with heat issues affecting its laptop computers. Sony in 2006 had a massive global recall over quality problems in its batteries for laptops You can read more about this story on CNET.