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Should a '9200' Brand Mean a 9200 GPU?
newsdee asks: "An enormous controversy is going on at the X1000 forums over laptop parts. Some Centrino-based laptops bear a label advertising the Mobility Radeon 9200 brand, but users have found out that the laptop actually contains the 9000 chip. The list of affected machines is as follows: Compaq Presario X1000, HP Pavilion ZT3000 and the HP Compaq NX7000. ATI's and HP's response have been that the label is promising performance and not a specific chip. Yet users seem to not like this at all, apparently because most of them define 'brand' as equating to product. According to reviews, there are no differences (same scores, same clock speed) between the chips other than AGP 8x support, which the Centrino chipset does not provide. I seem to remember that this is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened in PC hardware. Can anybody share insights of whether this is right or wrong? Should I complain about my 9000 chip that delivers what the 9200 brand promises, knowing it has not been overclocked?"
Its the 9200th FP!
beef, chicken, fish, ... and now this??
SCO does the same thing, advertising operating systems that are barely UNIX93-compliant as cutting edge.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
...using the same amount of $20 bills as you would use $100 bills instead, and explain them the $20 bills you give them are of the $100 brand quality.
The 9100 is a rebranded 8500, not a castrated one. The 9000 is castrated, and the 9200 is castrated, but has fake nuts. (9000 + 8X AGP)
Oh yeah, because you KNOW Wolfenstein 3D on GBA beats the hell out of Quake III on a laptop.
Lalala
Imagine playing cooperative Counterstrike with a few people who are also on the plane, and then talking to your teammate...
"Alright, let's go, you got the bomb?"
"I got it. You cover the hostages."
fun fun.
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