Dell blasted by boffins

President Ronald Riley said that Dell systems failed to intall proper monitoring into laptops which could have spotted the failure and shut down the computer

In a statement to the INQ he said that while there was no way to stop a catastrophic failure once an internal short occurs, it is possible to avoid this if thermal stress is managed.

"Dell does not in my opinion have the engineering expertise which other companies who actually advance the technology have," Riley said.

He accused them of achieving low prices by cutting corners from both a design perspective and by specifying and buying product based on price. Riley said that Dell had a poor reputation in the inventor community for a long time. The Alliance has had words with the outfit over alleged "liberties" with inventor's property.

"The handling of this issue, especially the long delay in properly addressing the problem reflects the corporate mindset of Dell… incendiary computers are just one more symptom of the moral and ethical problems which Dell faces," he said. µ