Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920
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From: Cesar Rabak on 14 Mar 2010 18:04 Em 13/3/2010 00:08, Tim Wescott escreveu: > Jim Stewart wrote: >> me here wrote: >>> Don McKenzie wrote: >>> >>>> Tuesday March 9, 2010 >>>> Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 >>>> >>>> By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people >>>> who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and >>>> received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. >>>> Newegg has thrown supplier IPEX Infotech of Freemont [corrected] >>>> California under the bus for this fiasco; in a statement released to >>>> Information Week, the retailer said, "We have since come to discover >>>> the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with >>>> this supplier." >>>> >>>> http://www.gearlog.com/2010/03/hands_on_fake_intel_core_i7-92_1.php >>>> >>>> Cheers Don... >>> >>> That's a good one. >>> >>> Someone somewhere must be laughing their heads off on that scam, and >>> driving a slighly more upmarket car. >>> >>> Be interesting to see if they catch the culprits. >>> >>> Pretty unlikely. >>> >>> I suppose there's a vacancy at Newegg for a store receivals officer now. >> >> Called incoming inspection here in the colonies (: >> >> And the they were probably the first employees fired >> when the economy tanked. >> > Incoming inspection is just an expense, after all. Heavens, it's almost > as bad as engineering! > No... incoming inspection is old fashioned because you know we've this ISO 9k certificates on file and we only buy from other certified folks... -- Cesar Rabak GNU/Linux User 52247. Get counted: http://counter.li.org/
From: Mr.T on 14 Mar 2010 22:37 "Cesar Rabak" <csrabak(a)bol.com.br> wrote in message news:hnjmgj$e7h$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > No... incoming inspection is old fashioned because you know we've this > ISO 9k certificates on file and we only buy from other certified folks... Sadly a very real misconception. MrT.
From: Ulf Samuelsson on 15 Mar 2010 19:10 me here skrev: > Don McKenzie wrote: > >> Tuesday March 9, 2010 >> Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 >> >> By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people >> who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and >> received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. >> Newegg has thrown supplier IPEX Infotech of Freemont [corrected] >> California under the bus for this fiasco; in a statement released to >> Information Week, the retailer said, "We have since come to discover >> the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with >> this supplier." >> >> http://www.gearlog.com/2010/03/hands_on_fake_intel_core_i7-92_1.php >> >> Cheers Don... > > That's a good one. > > Someone somewhere must be laughing their heads off on that scam, and > driving a slighly more upmarket car. > > Be interesting to see if they catch the culprits. > > Pretty unlikely. > > I suppose there's a vacancy at Newegg for a store receivals officer now. Incoming inspection might not do the job. I met someone who bought a cheap 8 GB (or whatever) iPod in China, and when back home, he started loading it up. Memory was full after 128 MB... BR Ulf Samuelsson
From: Mr.T on 15 Mar 2010 20:56 "Ulf Samuelsson" <ulf(a)a-t-m-e-l.com> wrote in message news:hnmepa$j0e$2(a)speranza.aioe.org... > Incoming inspection might not do the job. > I met someone who bought a cheap 8 GB (or whatever) iPod in China, > and when back home, he started loading it up. > > Memory was full after 128 MB... Er, isn't that the point of incoming inspection! (acceptance testing) "Inspection" doesn't mean a quick visual for obvious physical damage you realise? MrT.
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