Thinking of picking up a VAIO CW over the weekend? You might
want to hold those horses just a bit, at least until Sony (or
someone) figures out what exactly is causing the batteries on
these to zap themselves while asleep. Based on a raft of
complaints -- nine pages strong and growing -- over at Notebook
Review, it sounds as if the batteries within the outfit's new CW
series (at least those with Core i3 CPUs and the 330M GPU) are
fading inexplicably quick while resting, leaving many with next
to no juice once they crack open the lid the next morning. All
sorts of theories are flying, but one in particular seems to
note that a bundled Sony battery management application could be
causing cells to only charge to a certain percent even when the
machine is "off." For now, some folks are actually flipping the
battery out for a fraction of a second and popping it back in
after putting it to sleep for the night in order to prevent the
drain, but we get the feeling that a less janky fix should be in
order. Right, Sony