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The Ethics of Desktop Chips Stuffed Into Laptop PCs

Posted by timothy on from the mmm-a-little-toasty dept.

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.

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  1. The solution is obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    When it goes to half-speed, just run two in a Beowulf cluster!

  2. Re:Caveat Emptor by EvanED · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm sure you can figure it out. (And I'm surpried you didn't comment on the "aa" typo...) But in case you can, here, I'll go over it again in language you may be able to understand:

    "So would not care if I sold you a computer that I said came with a 2.2 GHz chip but that was set to run at only 2 MHz? You also cannot change that setting to make it run faster. After all, I didn't lie to you; it has a 2.2 GHz processor in it. I mean, I kind of doubt you ask "yes, it has a 2.2 GHz processor, but does it RUN at 2.2 GHz?" when you're buying a computer."

    There. I removed most of the big words for you. You may want to look up "probably" though.