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34 Design Flaws in 20 Days of Intel Core Duo

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-am-i-designing-this-now dept.

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."

9 of 356 comments (clear)

  1. Core Duo? by smallferret · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I would assume that you mean the iMac Core Duo, as opposed to the Dore Duo?

  2. You Insensitive clod!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    vary for different cans can become MAKES ME SICK JUST to keep up as munches the most If you have Is dying. Fact: they learn from our something that you where it belongs,

  3. Ignorance is prospering on Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ignorance is prospering on Slashdot.

    This is nothing spectacular at all...
    All chips have bugs, this is in no way more than any other CPU.

  4. Re:"one of the first times"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I had mod points, not only would I mod the parent off-topic, but I would mod your post off-topic as well.

  5. Re:"one of the first times"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I had mod points, I would mod both those posts "insightful" and your post "off-topic."

  6. One MAJOR flaw by d3athb0x · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mac Powerbooks and G5s are WIDELY used as THE copmuter for editing film on. The new MacBook does not properly run Final Cut Pro 4, one of the biggest names in editing software. BIG mistake apple, big mistake.

  7. Re:Faster by Golias · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Troll!?

    Man, there are a lot of mods with sticks up their ass today.

    Love or hate Apple, that comment was pretty damn funny.

    Note to moderators: If you think somebody might be making a joke, and you don't get it, move on and use your mod points more constructively elsewhere.

    If anything should be marked "Troll", it's the headline & summary.

    --

    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

  8. Re:Up front by Neoprofin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since when do "AMD-fanbois" have anything to do with "iPod-ad" jerking, that would be the Apple fanboys, or the college students who are far more likely using Dells payed for by their families with Intel inside.

    If you're going to be a retard at least get your forum archetypes correct so that people understand who you think you're better than.

    And-learn-how-to-hyphenate.

  9. I have five mod points by gnasher719 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone know how I can mod the article down as "stupid"?