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34 Design Flaws in 20 Days of Intel Core Duo
Pray_4_Mojo writes "Geek.com is reporting that Intel's errata (bug) documentation shows that the Intel Core Duo chip has 34 known issues found in the 20 days since the launch of the iMac Core Duo. (you can read the list) with only plans to fix one of them. While bugs in hardware is nothing new (the P4 has 64 known issues, at this time Intel does not plan to fix a single one) this marks one of the first times that Intel released a processor with known bugs, and some of the bugs are of higher severity than in the past. Also alarming is the rate the flaws have been found, at one and half per day since the launch of the iMac Core Duo."
Shh!!! You're ruining perfectly good FUD!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Why does Apple want to use an intel chip?
... uh, wait a minute ...
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Oh, thats right:
Microsoft Owns Apple.
How can we tell?
1. Apple's stock only rose 25% last week.
2. Bill Gates's birthday now a paid holiday for Apple employees.
3. Default Mac startup sound changed to "Taps."
4. Wall Street brokers have stopped using Apple stock certificates as toilet paper.
5. Apple's new slogan: "Almost as good as Windows!"
6. Apple has been bent over with its pants dropped for so long now, even a geek like Bill Gates was bound to get lucky.
7. Cute rainbow-colored apple now inhabited by cute rainbow-colored worm.
8. microsoft comes out with an operating system incorporating Mac technology
9. Phone and utilities mysteriously start working again at Apple's corporate HQ.
10. Steve Jobs seen tending bar at the Gates' private lawn party.
11. Diners in Microsoft's staff cafeteria can now enjoy their apple pie purely for its wholesome goodness and no longer as a symbolic act of global domination.
12. Unsold Newtons used as cobblestones in Gates's driveway.
13. Apple Employee of the Month gets to hunt loose change at Bill's house.
14. New Apple employee dress code includes large "Property of B. Gates" tattoo on ass.
15. Bill Gates still burned in effigy, but upper management no longer attends.
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I like #7 and #11 myself
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...Pobody's nerfect.
Nothing sucks like a Vax, nothing blows like a PowerMac G4
Cannot run Windows XP. Classification: Minor.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
we will miss the AlteVec Velocity Engine and 64-bit full RISC processing, no doubts. Lets hope Intel designs something as useful as AlteVec developers can take advantage of, and gets Apple a 64-bit chip soon.
The Admin and the Engineer
Yeah, I hear they're 2 to 3 times as fast now on the most important bug finding benchmarks.
Coral Cache of the image
Quoth the image: Show stopper, but only observed by Intel so far. Also, any OS developer who codes like this deserves this one.
I am NaN
I just checked on my P1, and it's really 19.9999999999999999742919319 days, not 20.
... for the first time, they're releasing the chip for a stable OS first.
It used to be that testers only had an unstable testbed OS (designed primarily to run the same company's office suite) to use for validatation. Testers were never quite sure before where the blue screens, lockups, funny noises, and billowing smoke actually originated.
(Relax, it's just a joke).
sigs, as if you care.
AE 16:
Show-stopper but only observed by Intel so far. Also, any OS developer who codes like this deserves this one.
Yeah, I know - there really isn't that much difference between a 1.8Ghz Core Duo and the 1.8Ghz dual-core G5 in the current Powerbooks.
Er. Wait a minute. There's no such G5 in a Powerbook? The best we had a single core 1.5Ghz G4? Oh - well perhaps there is a substantive difference in chips, after all.
concrete5: a cms made for marketing, but strong enough for geeks.
Just leave it in "BETA" google does a good job at that.
Sir, what are you doing? This is Slashdot, where everybody for some reason has a hard-on for AMD and ignores their flaws while pointing out Intel's to further their fanboy agendas. For crying out loud, we almost had a moment of calm, rational reasoning there. It's almost as if you're suggesting that the submitter is blowing things out of proportion, and that is IMPOSSIBLE HERE! Our system is fool-proof. Good day.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Tsh. Like all real geeks, I read Slashdot in Lynx under HURD on a custom ASIC I designed myself.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
/. is good for you.
Well this goes along with the new Apple announcement for a compatibility layer that recreates a genuine Mac OS 9 experience on an Intel-powered Mac. ...
I'll shut up now.
>>Maybe they're just getting faster/better at finding bugs?
Right. Its dual core so its twice the bugs found twice as fast. Amazing!
Soon they'll be finding the bugs before they leave the factory!