34 Design Flaws in 20 Days of Intel Core Duo 356
Pray_4_Mojo writes "Geek.com is reporting that Intel's errata (bug) documentation shows that the Intel Core Duo chip has 34 known issues found in the 20 days since the launch of the iMac Core Duo. (you can read the list) with only plans to fix one of them. While bugs in hardware is nothing new (the P4 has 64 known issues, at this time Intel does not plan to fix a single one) this marks one of the first times that Intel released a processor with known bugs, and some of the bugs are of higher severity than in the past. Also alarming is the rate the flaws have been found, at one and half per day since the launch of the iMac Core Duo."
Re:Faster (Score:5, Funny)
Oh thats it! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, thats right:
Microsoft Owns Apple.
How can we tell?
1. Apple's stock only rose 25% last week.
2. Bill Gates's birthday now a paid holiday for Apple employees.
3. Default Mac startup sound changed to "Taps."
4. Wall Street brokers have stopped using Apple stock certificates as toilet paper.
5. Apple's new slogan: "Almost as good as Windows!"
6. Apple has been bent over with its pants dropped for so long now, even a geek like Bill Gates was bound to get lucky.
7. Cute rainbow-colored apple now inhabited by cute rainbow-colored worm.
8. microsoft comes out with an operating system incorporating Mac technology
9. Phone and utilities mysteriously start working again at Apple's corporate HQ.
10. Steve Jobs seen tending bar at the Gates' private lawn party.
11. Diners in Microsoft's staff cafeteria can now enjoy their apple pie purely for its wholesome goodness and no longer as a symbolic act of global domination.
12. Unsold Newtons used as cobblestones in Gates's driveway.
13. Apple Employee of the Month gets to hunt loose change at Bill's house.
14. New Apple employee dress code includes large "Property of B. Gates" tattoo on ass.
15. Bill Gates still burned in effigy, but upper management no longer attends.
(http://www.ehumorcentral.com/Directory/Jokes/838
I like #7 and #11 myself
Don't Worry Apple... (Score:1, Funny)
The One I'm Waiting For (Score:4, Funny)
Cannot run Windows XP. Classification: Minor.
Re:34 design flaws and only 1/4 faster.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Faster (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I hear they're 2 to 3 times as fast now on the most important bug finding benchmarks.
I like the comment on bug AE9 (Score:3, Funny)
Quoth the image: Show stopper, but only observed by Intel so far. Also, any OS developer who codes like this deserves this one.
Re:20 days? (Score:4, Funny)
It's because (Score:5, Funny)
It used to be that testers only had an unstable testbed OS (designed primarily to run the same company's office suite) to use for validatation. Testers were never quite sure before where the blue screens, lockups, funny noises, and billowing smoke actually originated.
(Relax, it's just a joke).
I like this comment (Score:5, Funny)
Show-stopper but only observed by Intel so far. Also, any OS developer who codes like this deserves this one.
Re:34 design flaws and only 1/4 faster.... (Score:3, Funny)
Er. Wait a minute. There's no such G5 in a Powerbook? The best we had a single core 1.5Ghz G4? Oh - well perhaps there is a substantive difference in chips, after all.
Intel should take google's lead (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Should've gone with AMD (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Faster (Score:2, Funny)
Tsh. Like all real geeks, I read Slashdot in Lynx under HURD on a custom ASIC I designed myself.
Re:20 days? (Score:2, Funny)
Well this goes along with... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Faster (Score:3, Funny)
Right. Its dual core so its twice the bugs found twice as fast. Amazing!
Re:Faster (Score:3, Funny)