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.

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Re:you have to be kidding.

[mosch]

instead of laughing in their face (so professional!), why not buy them a mac? iBooks and TiBooks both have good battery lives, and they don't throttle back the processor because of poor processor engineering.

Re:Switch Ad

[Chad Page]

Actually, I bet the 512K L2, 700mhz iBook will outrun a P4 at 1ghz pretty easily. You gotta deflate P4 mhz against P3's and Athlons, which don't do quite as much per clock as a G3. So the P4 at 1.0 would be roughly equiv to a 500-600mhz G3.

Now, a P3-M/1.0 would be a different story.

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