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A Toronto law firm has started a class action suit against Dell Canada, seeking compensation for problems with five versions of the computer company's Inspiron notebooks.
The claim, disclosed Friday by Rochon Genova LLP, alleges that Dell "was negligent in the design of the notebooks," so the computers are susceptible to overheating and premature failure of the motherboard.
The failures "often occur just outside of the standard one-year warranty period," the lawyers said in a release.
A Dell Canada spokeswoman said the company does not comment on pending litigation.
Thad Griffin, the proposed representative plaintiff, said in the lawyer's release that the problems could be costly.
"I do not believe that I should be forced to spend hundreds of dollars to fix the defective motherboard when Dell should have known about this problem at the time they initially sold the computer."