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Shortage of Intel Laptop Chipsets

Posted by samzenpus on from the made-anywhere-but-here dept.

EvilTwinSkippy writes "Taiwanese notebook vendors are reporting a short supply of Intel CPU chipsets for laptops. This includes the popular Centrino line. In case you didn't know most "name brand" laptops like Dell, HP, and even Apple are actually manufactured by OEM's in Taiwan, Mainland China, and Korea."

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  1. Uhh... by cartzworth · · Score: 4, Funny

    In case you didn't know most "name brand" laptops like Dell, HP, and even Apple are actually manufactured by OEM's in Taiwan, Mainland China, and Korea. No Shit. Wait I thought they were made by rosie the riveter here in the good ole USA.

  2. Clawhammer... by mythosaz · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's ok, we all wanted Clawhammer Athlons with 1 megabyte caches anyway.

  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Funny

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  4. Re:Alienware by Zorilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    This explains so much. I ordered a Laptop from alienware last month and they say they are still missing parts and won't start building it for another two weeks. Punks!!

    Supernatural forces are helping you to avoid spending $4000 on a $1100 machine.

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  5. Re:That's why you don't use Intel Chips by wertarbyte · · Score: 2, Funny

    But A64 doesn't give you Internet access on the K2. Seriously, it is a question of marketing and semi-knowledgeable people believing that AMD => hotter.

    Screw the internet, on the K2 I want the hottest CPU possible!

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