Recalls. Don’t ya love ‘em? Today’s featured recall is rather large, affecting up to 500,000 Sony Vaio F and C series laptops sold since January 2010. Apparently a “thermal defect” is preventing the laptops in question from being unable to properly cool themselves, resulting in warped laptops and burned appendages. According to Sony, downloading a simple patch can make random melting issues cease to exist. Or, you can have Sony come pick...

Fans of Sony laptops who are looking forward to Windows 7 and the XP mode that will allow users to run legacy apps without fear of a Vista-like break will be sorely disappointed (putting it lightly) to hear that due to BS reasons that aren’t really that big of a concern security reasons, Sony has disabled hardware virtualization on all current Sony Vaio laptops meaning no XP mode for you. *Face palm*. According to Sony’s Xavier Lauwaert, Senior manager for...