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You know, he's not wrong. This is, in impact, way bigger than Intel's FDIV fiasco and that ended up in recalls.
Some of the newer computers have CPU soldered into the motherboard
In cases like that it is useless to get 'replacement CPU'
Even for computers which one can change the CPU, not many users know how to do that correctly
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"I want repaired processors for free" (Score:5, Insightful)
You know, he's not wrong. This is, in impact, way bigger than Intel's FDIV fiasco and that ended up in recalls.
Re:"I want repaired processors for free" (Score:1)
Some of the newer computers have CPU soldered into the motherboard
In cases like that it is useless to get 'replacement CPU'
Even for computers which one can change the CPU, not many users know how to do that correctly