Gizmodo
Over 200 AirPort Express stations have suddenly burned out, enough to make us—and others—think there might be a bit of a problem. While most of the latest Airports are impervious to this problem, it seems that if your AirPort has any of these identifiers, then you can expect a visit from the smoky electronics fairy some time soon:
- as we originally suspected, it predominantly affects users living in 220/230V-based countries (98% of the reports). - all defective APX have been manufactured by Foxconn during S2 2004 - as a result, all defective APX have a serial number starting with HS42, HS43 or HS44. - most of the defective APX have a product number either A1084 or A1088.
More info as we get it.
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I've lost two of them, and at 120V.
230V countries in particular? Hmm. Did somebody forget to use the right kind of transformer?
I am pleased to see posts keeping people updated on design flaws with products. I've noticed that Apple seems to have a lot of products posted here with design flaws. I know this will sounds like flame bait but it's not I'm curious do they do recalls on all of these so that there customers are taken care of? I've seen DELL problems with laptop batteries and power supplies but in each case they recalled the failing units. We actually found some design flaws in chips that DELL shipped and even though the units were off warranty they replaced them for free. I'm honestly just curious about how Apple handles this because when I see them rated by Gartner for customer support they are rated highly and yet I see so many articles here pointing out product flaws with few recalls. Did I just miss the recall notices.
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