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I was computer science major and a DELL Phone Tech support evening shift guy in Austin back in the day when Intel's Pentium V arrived in the market with a with
by javier_e06 3y ago
I was computer science major and a DELL Phone Tech support evening shift guy in Austin back in the day when Intel's Pentium V arrived in the market with a with Floating Point Error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug The lines got busy with people asking to return the brand new DELLs. Old ladies pulled the excel spreadsheets and start copying paste values to test for the floating point error. Then they will call me to return their system. After a few days explaining that unless they are planning to plot a orbit into Jupiter the PC was fine they all insisted to return the PCs. We ended with a lot of refurbished PCs. 6 nines anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi
- balls187 3y agoIt’s likely Intel compensated Dell for the problem. I don’t like arguing by analogy, but I don’t have a better way to make my point—-what if instead, old lady paid for a cpu that was clocked at 3.2ghz, and instead the cpu was hardware throttled down to 2.8ghz. I expect when I purchase an item, all the features I paid for operate correctly—-even if I never expect to use all of them or use them to their full potential.