Well, considering Sony voluntarily recalled their batteries on both occasions, yes I would say Sony remains respectable. Concerning the second incident, there were 40 reports worldwide of overheating, which could have been attributed to changes in the laptop after the battery was created or defects in raw materials, out of 100,000. That's a .04% failure rate. And Sony did a VOLUNTARY recall. Now compare that to MS that had a 33% failure rate and decided to stay silent about it. Only till after lawsuits did they set up their billion dollar repair program. Not a recall like what should have happened. Just so they could keep their lead.
But what's truly sad are the individuals who this happened to, but instead of being angered like they would have been for any other piece of electronic equipment, they will defend MS till their deaths. Or even more sad is how people always want to point out Sony's mistakes, but give passes to huge mistakes by everyone else. Just reading comments on posts are sickening. Complaining about charging what they feel to be way more for the battery then it costs to make. Well yeah, it's called profit, eveyone does it, or they go bankrupt. But Sony is the only "ripping" us off, no one else. Ah, I wonder what it is like to be so blind.
