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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Earlie who wrote (80644)	5/13/2000 3:44:00 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

The Impact of Intel's MTH-Issue on the IT-Business tomshardware.com Intel knows that there are about 900,000 motherboards out there that are equipped with MTH chips. All those motherboard would HAVE TO BE replaced if the customers should demand it. 900,000 motherboards all brought to Intel's headquarter in Satan Clara would just about fit into 50 sea containers!!! We are talking of 540 tons of high-tech crap! Now obviously Intel does not want to be involved in a replacement situation of this magnitude. Therefore Intel and its OEM/distributors/... customers are trying to state, "not every board with MTH is affected". However, at the same time nobody can guarantee that an MTH-motherboard will not suffer from sudden crashes or hangs at some stage in time. All the parties involved hope that not every MTH-motherboard owner will return her or his board, but the situation is similar to a recall of a car model. The car manufacturer informs you that it's rather unlikely that your brakes will fail, but they cannot guarantee flawless brakes unless you put your car in for a brake replacement. What would you do? Hope that your brakes will work fine, or make sure that your brakes will get replaced? I guess it's a simple question and why should anybody feel fine with a system that might fail and crash or hang any time?