[plug] [link] a lawyer Switches

[Ben Jensz]

Craig Foster wrote:

>Hey, we can ask Intel to re-enable our Caches properly on our celeron
>CPUs - they're really just P3's that are hobbled... Or my P3 600B that
>should be a P3 800EB even...
>  
>
Well the earlier P3 based Celerons actually had faster L2 cache than the 
P3s did (well apart from the ones with no L2 cache - the 266 and 300 
Celeries), but only a quarter of the amount.

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Peter J. Nicol [mailto:PeterNicol at vrl.com.au] 
>>Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:48 PM
>>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>>Subject: RE: [plug] [link] a lawyer Switches
>>    
>>
>>> I fail to see the difference with IBM. You get what you pay for.
>>> Someone has to pay for the R&D in product development.
>>>      
>>>
>>You are *not* getting what you paid for, which is the whole 
>>point of the exercise.
>>What you have paid for has been artificially limited, in 
>>order to charge you for
>>unneccessary 'upgrades'.
>>
>>    
>>
Well I can see reasoning in charging for a faster system if they 
actually replace items such as the CPU etc to upgrade your system.  But 
if all they are doing is removing some sort of inhibitor present in a 
system which you already own, then thats highly questionable conduct IMHO.

Because really, if this company that is providing a system to remove the 
inhibitor, then what does IBM have to quarrel about really?  I mean just 
because they sell you the system doesn't mean that you have to take it 
to them to get services performed/upgraded on it.

Say you buy a new Holden Commodore, that doesn't bind you to getting all 
work done by a Holden authorised repaired or bind you to HAVING to get 
Holden genuine replacement parts for it.  You can choose who you get to 
work on it and what brand of replacement parts you buy.  Maybe IBM need 
to take a different stance, because essentially they are saying no you 
can't get someone else to perform work on a machine purchased from us, 
or install a competitors product which makes your system perform faster, 
you may only purchase our product/service.  Which is a load of crap to 
put it plainly IMHO.


/ Ben