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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. Frost Pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Muhhahahaha

  2. Re:Blame yourself. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What has happened to the quality of trolls here? Sheesh, quite a bad troll, my good fellow.

  3. why was this posted? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    what kind of stupid article is this? what jackass would fork out that much cash on something without researching it first? oooohhh, it runs slightly slower on batteries...waahhh big fucking deal. my vaio does that. if for some reason i want it to run at full speed on batteries and run down quickly, i can just use the speedstep monitor thingy to crank it up, or just uninstall the software that supports it and it will run full speed all the time.

  4. Re:you have to be kidding. by mosch · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  5. Re:Switch Ad by Chad+Page · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  6. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Troll

    Comment removed based on user account deletion