Well, looks like serious qualities issues whether from design, manufacturing or supplier based!
Whoops. You know what caused this? The people posting pictures of exploded Dell laptops and posting that "they should have bought an Apple." All that gloating caused a karmic backlash.
First Dell and now Apple, both US companies get bad press but deep in each story is the Jap's Sony battery that is the cause. It is the Sony name that should be headlined not the US company. The headline-only readers of the drive-by media will only remember the shot at the US companies.