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To: thecow who wrote (29612)10/14/2002 5:16:06 PM
From: Patricia Meaney  Read Replies (2) of 110653
 
My cousin's husband told me a bizarre story regarding a DELL they bought a few years ago. They bought a Pentium (not sure which one) and the way he explained it was that there is some kind of a seal that DELL puts on its' computers and you can't break the seal in the back if you want to keep the warranty (I never heard of this, but I have never owned a DELL). Anyway, after his warranty ran out he decided to make some upgrades and he opened the back and found out that the chip was really a Celeron, not a Pentium, even though the bios when the computer started up says it was a Pentium. Could this be possible? Could they actually use a cheaper chip but have the bios say it something else? He claims that they sold him a Pentium but put a Celeron chip inside and got around it by not allowing the customer to open the back because it would compromise the warranty - story sounds fishy, but he's a pretty honest guy and don't know why he would make this up.
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