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Posted on 08/02/2015 8:50:09 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Nvidia Corp. has recalled about 88,000 of its Shield tablets sold in the U.S. and Canada because the lithium-ion battery can overheat and become a fire hazard.
The products recalled are, specifically, eight-inch tablets sold between July 2014 and July 2015 at places such as Amazon.com, BestBuy.com and GameStop. The model numbers, seen are on the left-side edge of the devices, P1761, P1761W and P1761WX. Nvidia didn’t say how many...
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Nice graphic. Is that the same one you used when iPhones were catching fire?
Your post has nothing to do with this article or this recall. It is just you being your usual trolling Anti-Apple Hate Brigade self. Nice Try, bolobaby. . . Thanks for playing.
By the way, of the 1.2 billion iOS devices sold, there has never been a recall. . . or a consistent problem with overheating batteries. Apple did recall 32,000 batteries for some Model 5200 Apple laptops back in the 1990s for overheating batteries made by Sony, which Sony made good on. . . but then Sony made the same batteries for Dell who had to recall over 90,000 of them. Apple had SIX of those Sony's overheat and not one fire. Dell actually had a fire in that incident. There were also some Lithium Ion Batteries that heated enough to swell and distort the laptop cases in the mid-2000s that Apple repaired under warranty, even though the warranty period had expired.
Oh, and that graphic was linked from an article on Nvidia tablets catching fire . . . again, nice try.
Fastest tablet on the market. Perhaps not good enough cooling. Pity...I was planning on grabbing the Shield 2 in September.
Hot item!
Well, I will admit this Android tablet will do something Apple iPads can't. You can Fry bacon on them. . . Mmmmmm.... Bacon!
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So many Windows 10 list pings tonight, it was a relief to get something else!! :-)
Geez, now you've done it... I have to go find and cook and eat bacon.
Because nothing else in the world is like bacon.
Bacon.
That is all.
To be fair, I guess it could be a battery manufacturer problem.
Uh, no. . .
Apple iPad Air 2 GPU tested, outclasses (Invidia Shield) Tegra K123 October, 2014
Apple iOS v. Android Nvidia
Someone has put the Apple iPad Air 2 through GFXBench's 2.7 T-Rex and 3.0 Manhattan's onscreen and offscreen (1080p) platform and we get to ogle at the framerates posted.
The results show the iPad Air 2 is just as good and even at times better than the promising Tegra K1 chip and its Kepler GPU, which was the previous graphics champ.
The scores below show the iPad Air 2 beat the Tegra K1 in both offscreen tests - the same tests that are both capped at 1080p and indicate the raw power of the GPU.
The onscreen tests offer less framerate because of the above-1080p native resolution of the iPad Air 2 but it still managed to pull ahead of the Xiaomi Mi Pad 7.9 which has the same screen resolution and Nvidia's latest chip inside.
The Nvidia Shield Tablet was only able to beat the Apple iPad Air 2 on the onscreen tests as its screen resolution is 1080p. More importantly the iPad Air 2 achieved superb framerates in all but the onscreen Manhattan test - easily above the 30fps threshold.
We're eagerly waiting to see how much better the 64-bit Tegra K1 will be than the 32-bit one in the Shield Tablet and Mi Pad 7.9. As it happens GFXBench lists a Nexus 9 unit (the HTC-made Google tablet with the 64-bit Tegra K1) with scores in both T-Rex and Manhattan but there's nothing in the Info screen to indicate this is legitimately the Nexus 9.
Naturally we will be doing our own testing on the iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 once we get our hands on them.
However, in the Android market, you are right.
The Shield 2 may have other numbers. . . but Apple is supposed to have the Apple A9 chip in the new iPads out then as well. . . Should be interesting.
Apple had an recall last year for swelling/defective batteries in iPhones, plus an earlier recall for iPods with overheating batteries. There have also been a couple of Apple power adapter recalls for laptops.
No, it was not for "swelling/defective batteries in iPhones.
"Apple has determined that a very small percentage of iPhone 5 devices may suddenly experience shorter battery life or need to be charged more frequently. The affected iPhone 5 devices were sold between September 2012 and January 2013 and fall within a limited serial number range.
Apple contacted the owners of these iPhones directly by mail. It was NOT due to overheating. Note that it Apple covered them even though they were out of warranty.
Yes, you are correct they did recall some MagSafe power adapters about three years ago because of weak connectors at the magsafe connector. . . Apple also replaced those even though the warranties had expired.
I do dimly recall the overheating batteries on a few iPods. . . thanks.
Dunno about the battery issue but the NVidia GPU in my Alienware M18X caused me years of grief.
Kept overheating to the point it serial killed the mobos.
Alienware finally relented and sent me a next-gen M18 to replace it completely but I really miss the other one.
It was so fecking cool looking, it was a sin.
This one?
It’s okay.
I miss my glowing grilles.
*Much* better performance and dual Radeon GPUs take away some of the sting but not all of it.
When I built my own desktops, I avoided NVidia cards unless there was nothing else available.
They always seem to have cooling issues with everything they make.
On the 18X, I could not even touch the left upper corner where the GPU lived.
This one, I can’t even *tell* where the GPU is.
Just no heat, no matter how hard I run it.
Meh.
I’m rambling again.
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Thanks, dayglored, I will forward to my son. He is in Seattle to attend the Dota2 International Championships.
Um, essentially identical, for $200-$300 less.
Just an interesting choice of graphic.
Here’s the deal:
1. No one has a count of Nvidia devices that have actually caught fire. Could be one. Could be none.
2. When Apple identifies a problem with their hardware/software and proactively tells people to bring their devices in or issues a fix, you gush about how far ahead of these things they are... how far ahead of the curve... what a great service company... etc.
3. The graphic - and the one you choose when posting any link about potential security threats (the “measles android”) - is a clear scare tactic. What do you call it? FUD? You have no idea how many units have actually caught fire, but you choose the FUD graphic. Why?
4. You run an Apple ping list, but anything non-Apple related is given this FUD treatment, with scary graphics and everything.
This is the old discussion we had about maintaining SOME semblance of objectively and NOT look like a paid social marketer for Apple.
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