Getting rid of free coffee and snacks seems like such a small thing, but a pebble can start an avalanche. Quote from the comments
"Having worked at Intel for a few years rhe coffee bars were a big thing so was the fruit. Being able to walk 2 min from my desk to a huge coffee bar with 10 different brews and fresh fruit and other drinks was amazing. Always helped me refocus and get back into whatever I was working on. RIP cold brew and bananas."
"Remove coffee from the office where I work and you'll have a mutiny on your hands. ( I'm in the it department of a construction company)"
"Still waiting on my replacement CPUs.
Intel allegedly has no stock on anything.
My 14900KS was f'ed out of the box, started RMA on July 16th, it was approved July 22nd, and only in mid August was I told the 14900KS would be shipping 5-6 weeks, which was updated to "When it becomes available" yesterday.
13900K they discontinued (But left the 12900K, weird eh), they ran out of stock and have quoted the same as the 14900KS to get a 14900K to replace it.
As of now it looks like Intel 15th gen will launch before their shipping estimation, which means Intel is probably just going to try and offer an Arrow Lake upgrade and hope people don't get angry that their motherboards are worthless.
Can't even get a 12900KS because they axed that SKU in July once they realized that anything over a 12900K was f'd.
If I take their refund, that gives me $2050
Then I still have a Z790 Taichi and Z790 Dark Hero that are useless, around $1300 CAD there.
And if I don't buy rebuy Intel, the high binned DDR5 kits I have were just a waste of money. Another $1200, that 96GB 7200 CL34 in my flair is a 4 DIMM 24GB kit, not a lot of those out there so it cost $ and my 8200 CL38 kits are SK Hynix 5600B 3GB M Die with Class A ICs, don't need that on AMD.
This hardware is all under 3 months old now.
F'ing THRILLED.
Their support forums fill up full of complaints that customer service is ghosting them, or something else has gone wrong. pcmr seems to get a thread a day of people in the same boat of waiting, or being offered a refund as their only option."
ROFLWAFFLES!