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The Ethics of Desktop Chips Stuffed Into Laptop PCs
squareBIT writes "I recently found this article on THG about my SmartStep 250N having a desktop CPU stuffed into it. That's all fine and dandy. but when I paid for this thing, nobody told me it would run at HALF SPEED in battery mode. I don't recall there being any mention of this before I handed them thousands of dollars. Shouldn't there be some sort ethical ramifications put into action here? I feel so dirty ..." The least-satisfactory computer I've ever owned (won't even boot now) is a Toshiba with just such a chip -- wish I'd asked about that in the store.
A CPU that only runs half as fast as you expect. Wouldn't that be a Cyrix or an AMD k5?
If you pull out all the papers they gave you, and look at the REALLY REALLY REALLY fine print, it's there. Right next to the spot where you agree to give them your soul upon purchasing it.
The only reason I keep my Windows partition is so I can mount it like the bitch that it is.
O.T. P.S.: is it my connect, or is slashdot slow today?
Well, Duh. The obvious reason is because somebody at OSDN tripped over the power cord and they are running at half-speed on batteries.
Either that, or it's that pesky MySQL acting up again...
Everybody Wang-Chung tonight!
calling the /. crowd the "general public" is a bit of a stretch, don't ya think? :-P
"I have no special gift, I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
"Like, I went to the store to buy this laptop, and uh, like I got it home, and figured out that if you didn't have it plugged into the wall, it runs like, um, half speed. *insert slow wierd sound here*
So, I returned it and bought an Apple iBook. I unplugged it from like the wall, and *insert strange zippy sound here* it was still running like at full speed.
I'm John, and I'm a certified Pron watcher."
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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Yes after reading the article in more details, apparently my previous post was crap. Please mod it down, it's misleading. Sorry.
With as slow as Slashdot is running today, did someone enable Speed Step on the Slashdot servers? Maybe Cowboy Neal unplugged the servers so they are running in battery mode!
$100 (or 0x64 dollars for that stupid hex guy)
Don't encourage him.
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It is called SmartStep. That should have been a major clue.
I thought that meant it was optimized for running a NeXT platform on!
New MTV special: Fans unplugged.
Considered harmful.
and they don't throttle back the processor because of poor processor engineering.
Yeah, they just run at half speed all the time.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.