Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"We need a digital camera that can be switched on and fire off that first shot fast. It's not a commonly tracked statistic on any review site, and nobody seems to have this information for every camera. We were hoping other readers could inform us as to what small digital cameras can fire off their first pics in under a second (ideally under half a second). It needs to be small, but mostly, just really quick in operation. Thanks!"
"Apple lost alot of the Consumer cred by comming out after Dell on this one."
Actually check your facts, Apple had a battery recall of some of the batteries far prior (since at least mid 2005) to Dell of many of the sony batteries. The big announced recall was actually just an expansion of the range of batteries being recalled as Apple found out (due to the investigations of Sony and Dell) that a larger range of batteries was affected. Dell waited till tons of laptops exploded before doing a recall. How many Apple's did you see exploding before they issued the voluntary expansion of the recall?
Not to say Apple is perfect but at least they were already trying to do everything to make sure consumers weren't getting bad batteries. Sony is to blame in this case.