Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Dell in legal hot water
In what could be a landmark international legal case the Dell computer has been accused in a class action lawsuit of knowingly selling defective notebook computers. The Canadian lawsuit, lodged in the Ontario Superior Court, alleges that Dell Canada sold a range of Inspiron notebooks, knowing that they had defective motherboards. According to the lawsuit, the motherboards of Inspiron 1100, 1150, 5100, 5150, and 5160 notebooks sold by Dell were susceptible to overheating, which caused them to fail prematurely, often not long after the standard one-year warranty had expired.
2006 had not been a good year for the computer giant, when several laptop computers suffered explosive failures which saw the company recall 4.1 million notebooks with defective Sony Lithium Ion batteries. Pictures of the failed laptops and the damage caused were widely circulated across the internet.
