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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.'"
"Human being behaving crookedly, story at 11."
What's the big deal? There have always been and always will be liars, cheats, and thieves among humans.
feh. stuff.
This is an example of "Free Trade" and "Free Markets" in action! It may not be a public safety concern, like aircraft parts or pharmeceuticals, but it sure shows one of the limitations of outsourcing to the cheapest source. You get what you pay for!
And the rest of us are going to look at "Made in China" as a marker for fraudulently made shit! Look out US-based companies, you're Chinese Off-shorers are loosing their credibility!
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!
The situation is pretty clear. It is libel and slander, since the real-world poor performance of those illegally rebadged Celerons tarnishes the reputation of Intel's genuine Pentium 4 3.6GHz processors and thus results in monetary losses to Intel. Also, the act of relabelling (Intel CPU heatspreader plates are laser-engraved with data) is an act of copyright infringement, since the (C) Intel text is located on different places of the heatspreader plate on P4 and Celeron. They need to change that and so trespass on copyright.
I think USA should treat such issues as a matter of national security, because high-tech is a big pillar of US economy. If Uncle Sam can throw cruise missiles at a vet inoculation factory in Sudan with impunity and claim fraudulently that it was a chemical weapons plant, why can't USA honestly bomb the shit out of those red chinese junk this time, so they never dare to hurt Intel any more? Make them learn via ass-kicking.
"I'd probably buy one of those combos at 70US$ regardless of their fraudulent business practises, though."
Well there's a shock. You who steal..er..download pirated music and movies would also support fraudulent businesses practices pertaining to hardware. Do you have some elaborate left-wing wacko explanation about how this is not wrong either?
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...
why are we even dealing with a country that has no respect for free expression or human rights?
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Are you talking about China or the USA now? This is geting very confusing