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What a joke. Got a source saying that the i7 I buy from Intel is somehow inferior to the one that ships in an Apple product?

• rorykoehler 10y ago
  http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/33816/the-manufacturing-and-grading-of-families-of-microprocessors http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/33816/the-man... I can't find the source just now though I do remember reading about apple prebuying all perfect chips of certain classes therefore making then unavailable to the competition. Given their purchasing power I don't find this wholly inconceivable.
  • na85 10y ago
    No source, then. Okie dokie.
    • rorykoehler 10y ago
      That kind of tone is not why I and most others come to Hackernews. Please refrain from it in future. I did come across this article where Cook essentially says buying these components is a company secret.... http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/18/apple_commits_3_9_billion_to_secret_long_term_component_contracts http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/18/apple_commits_3_9_...