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Remarked Celerons Sold As P4s
Lam1969 writes "Sumner Lemon reports that a Chinese company, Shenzhen Chuanghui Electronics Co., is remarking Celeron chips as Pentium 4s and supplying software to mask the chips' real pedigree from operating systems. From the article : 'The remarked processors Chuanghui sells are actually 1.7-GHz Celeron chips and are currently available for $78 each, including a motherboard, in quantities of 100 or more, said James Zhan, a company representative named online as a contact for potential buyers. By comparison, Intel sells the real thing for $401 in 1,000-unit quantities without a motherboard, according to the company's most recent price list.'"
What you are saying is, that companies selling PCs are actually complicit in the act of pirating and sharing music ?
Or that gunmanufacturers are murderers ? Or car manufacturers...
If I use my knife for cutting bread, or people is not the responsibility of the knife manufacturer.
Has anybody out there *ever* gotten an Intel chip that matched the sticker on the outside of the box when they bought the whole thing ready-made? Dunno how many times I've reclaimed castaway computers where the stickers on the outside were complete fantasy when compared to what's inside. And don't worry about the consumer getting wise - even amongst the savier users, 90% of the public wouldn't know better if you told them Dumbo the Flying Elephant was inside their computer, they're *never* gonna open that sucker up!
China has been an independent country since about 200 BC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ date_of_independence.
US law doesn't apply there.
Oh well, what the hell...