By Stan Beer 16 January 2007

Dell has been accused in a Canadian class action lawsuit of knowingly selling defective notebook computers. The lawsuit, lodged in the Ontario Superior Court, alleges that Dell Canada sold a range of Inspiron notebooks, knowing that they had defective motherboards.

According to the lawsuit, the motherboards of Inspiron 1100, 1150, 5100, 5150, and 5160 notebooks sold by Dell were susceptible to overheating, which caused them to fail prematurely, often not long after the standard one-year warranty expired.

Dell, like Apple, was at the center of an overheating battery crisis last year, which saw the company recall 4.1 million notebooks with defective Sony Lithium Ion batteries. In one of the most damaging incidents, a Dell notebook with a battery experiencing thermal runaway explode into flames at a conference in Japan. Pictures of the incident were circulated around the Internet.

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