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Consumer Reports has confirmed using a thermal imaging camera that Apple’s new iPad does tend to run a tad hotter than its predecessor. But, during their tests, they also found a more serious issue, apparently.
“Using a thermal imaging camera, Consumer Reports engineers recorded temperatures as high as 1... |
21 March 2012
05:08 GMT |
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After reports broke out that the new iPad was prone to overheat during usage, Dutch site Tweakers.net decided to performed a GLBenchmark test on the tablet.
They took both the iPad 3 and an iPad 2 unit to measure the heat differences between the two devices using an infrared camera. They discovered that iPad 3 was r... |
20 March 2012
08:37 GMT |
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Early adopters of Apple’s new iPad are complaining on forums (including the company’s own discussions board) about overheating issues.
Apple devices tend to get hot when the user connects to the Internet, especially via a cellular connection.
The iPad 3 seems to continue this trend. However, there are m... |
19 March 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Sony and developer Rockstar Games have launched a joint statement which says that neither the 3.61 firmware for the PlayStation 3 nor the video game L.A. Noire are causing the home console to overheat and shut down when the game is running.
The two companies have not provided any othe... |
23 May 2011
17:21 GMT |
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After a number of players reporting that their PlayStation 3 home gaming systems were shutting down without any warning while playing the new L.A. Noire from Team Bondi and Rockstar the two companies have suggested that the official 3.61 firmware from Sony was the cause of the problems.
A support page for the issu... |
19 May 2011
10:31 GMT |
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It would seem that, even with all the technological advancements of the past years, issues of overheating and occasionally flaming electronics persist, the latest of which seems to have involved a certain Sony laptop.The more complex the electronic, the easier it is for design flaws of engineering oversights to slip... |
28 December 2010
09:01 GMT |
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Once again, a flaw in the design of a product has prompted an IT company, Toshiba to be precise, to recall about 41,000 laptops from its Satellite T Series of mobile computers, on the grounds that the plug-in to the AC adapter can melt the plastic around it. Over the years, PC makers sometimes found themselves in a ... |
3 September 2010
08:27 GMT |
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iPod nanos sold between September 2005 and December 2006 have been confirmed to pack a faulty battery which, in some cases, may spontaneously overheat or even burst into flames, as numerous users have reported. Apple has recently acknowledged the issue, and is actively addressing it for Japanese customers.According t... |
11 August 2010
08:15 GMT |
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Over the years, there have been many occasions when a personal computer supplier or another, regardless of how prominent, was forced to issue a recall of its wares. Most often, the problems consisted of manufacturing flaws that led to overheating. Apparently, Sony is faced with exactly this type of situation. To... |
30 June 2010
09:04 GMT |
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It is a generally known fact that, in order for any PC component, or, indeed, the entire system to run properly and at an optimum performance, the latest drivers should be used for all hardware. However, in some cases, updating a driver may prove less than favorable, sometimes even fatal, to the respective component ... |
5 March 2010
07:05 GMT |
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Back in October 2009, Acer issued a recall for a number of Acer Aspire Timeline laptops that were manufactured before the 15th of September. Said models posed a fire hazard because of a microphone wire that was prone to short-circuiting, possibly causing unit deformation and malfunction. Now, Acer America has issued ... |
11 January 2010
02:32 GMT |
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Over the years, there have been a series of headlines regarding laptops from various system vendors that had been recalled due to various reasons, most of which had to do with overheating of a certain hardware component. It appears that, although the manufacturing technology has evolved significantly, enabling low-po... |
12 October 2009
05:53 GMT |
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It seems that AT&T decided that its PCD Quickfire 3G messaging device could be safely used by its customers, and a version of the handheld is back on the company's website available for purchase. And since the handset has been pulled down due to overheating problems, the company decided to have it on sale for a ... |
23 June 2009
02:22 GMT |
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It seems that AT&T's Quickfire is not the only handset to feature overheating problems. According to the latest news on the Web, another QWERTY device comes with the issue, namely the high-end BlackBerry Bold mobile phone made by Research in Motion. The new BlackBerry Bold, which has been previously reported t... |
27 February 2009
07:09 GMT |
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We reported to you recently that AT&T had decided that its Quickfire device should not be sold to the users anymore. The company announced all of its stores and channel retailers to halt all sales of the device and quarantine the existing stock. The mobile phone operator said that this measure had been taken as a re... |
26 February 2009
07:03 GMT |
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According to a report recently published by the trading standards officers, in the United Kingdom there might be several hundreds of thousands of potentially dangerous devices used to re-charge an ever increasing number of portable electronics. Statistics indicate that most of them come from China and other countries... |
21 July 2008
02:56 GMT |
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Alienware's Area-51 m15x gaming notebook has had quite some issues since it was introduced on the market. You might remember the fact that the extremely expensive mobile gaming rig was reported to have shipped with only a part of the advertised lighting areas enabled. Recent reports claim that the notebooks star... |
19 March 2008
11:20 GMT |
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Yesterday, Nvidia unveiled its most powerful graphics card offering, the dual-GPU GeForce 9800 GX2. After a series of delays initially caused by some overheating issues, the card finally arrived on the market, yet it seems that the heat issue has hardly been fixed.Recent reports emerging from the card's testers ... |
19 March 2008
10:34 GMT |
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If you own an Xbox 360 console, you're surely aware that you might at some point experience the Red Ring of Death, in case you haven't already. It appears that this issue is gone from the latest versions of the console, but we're still wondering what's causing them, after all. An inside source fr... |
21 January 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Water drips, the Earth is round, Halo 3 sells and ... the Xbox 360 can melt if it's left on a heated stove. These are all general truths that usually require no demonstration in order to prove that they're facts. Well, maybe except for that last statement...One of Engadget's readers, Ty was keen on an... |
8 October 2007
03:00 GMT |
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The unlucky 14-year-old gamer lives in North Carolina, in the US and he almost killed himself trying to stop his console from overheating. He wrapped his Xbox 360 in plastic and tape, while the console was still working and then dipped it in a pan of water... Of course the boy was found unconscious by his mom, after... |
22 August 2007
05:02 GMT |
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Those who own a Wii surely know about their WiiConnect24 feature and probably use it on a daily basis. If you think about it, why did Nintendo call the feature WiiConnect24? Where does that 24 come from? The TV series? No, probably from '24 hours a day.' The thing is it has been recently acknowledged that y... |
19 July 2007
10:09 GMT |
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