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Transmeta Confirms Recall

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-a-bad-day dept.

jbischof was the first to tell us that Transmeta has confirmed that they are recalling Crusoe, as we mentioned earlier. The statements says it's fewer then 300 NEC laptops, so it's not that huge of a deal after all. Of course the egg-on-face factor is still high.

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  1. Taco Quality Seal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    Nov. 29, 9:37 AM:
    Normally I sae this sort of stuff ..

    Nov. 29, 10:24 AM:
    from the screwing-with-carniore dept.

    Nov. 29, 3:19 PM:
    from the now-thats-a-wierd-thing-to-do dept.

    Nov. 29, 4:00 PM:
    Possible Crusoe and Recall? (uh, yeah)

    And now, Nov. 29, 9:37 PM:
    .. to tell us that Transmeta has confirmed that we they are recalling Crusoe .. The statements says its fewer then 300 NEC laptops, so its not that huge of a deal after all ..

    This calls for the creation of the CmdrTaco Quality Seal! The first one is given to JeffK! Only awarded to sites with a minimum of spelling and grammar errors.

    You might, however, also employ a grammar & spelling nazi.

  2. Poor Linus by Shoeboy · · Score: 5

    He could be out of a job if Transmeta doesn't turn things around.
    My sister is trying to get out of being a social worker and she can't get another job because she doesn't have Windows or Office 2000 experience.
    Let's face it - Linus doesn't either.
    I'm willing to put up $500 bucks to help pay the $6000 cost of MCSE training in the event Transmeta folds - how about you guys?
    C'mon, we can't leave Linus out in the cold after all he's done for the open source community.
    --Shoeboy

  3. How to feel by ffatTony · · Score: 5

    String corporateMistake( Corporation corp )
    {
    if ( OpenSourceCompanies.contains( corp ) ||
    corp.employeesLinusT()
    )
    return "Things will get better";

    else
    return "Ha Ha " + corp.getName() + " sucks just like MS,"
    " this incident is proof positive";
    }

  4. Manufacturing defect by Trongy · · Score: 5

    The press release makes it sound like a manufacturing defect (it only affected a single batch of chips) rather than a design defect. It doesn't sound like a huge problem. All the companies produce defective chips; they should never make it past quality control.
    Compared with Intel's famous fdiv bug which was a design fault and affected all pentiums at that time, this is relatively minor.

    I'd say that the biggest loss in this case would be due to the bad publicity that Transmeta has received.

    Chris