P4 Recall!!!

[NOX]

According to an e-mail I received from Kyle Bennet, it?s just Best Buy. 😱

PC World was way off to title it "US stores recall Pentium 4 machines"

 

[joburnet]

"Consumers trying to purchase computer systems loaded with the Pentium 4 chip at Best Buy outlets in Houston; Jacksonville; Fort Wayne; and Hawthorne, were each told that Pentium 4 systems had been recalled from store shelves due to issues such as excessive heat and inadequate performance, sources said."

In Jacksonville, a Best Buy sales representative said he was advised to remove the Pentium 4 systems from shelves due to performance issues

What I got out of the article was that the P4's were just too expensive and they didn't get that great performance. This seems silly because i'm sure they can fool some idiot into paying $2500 for a system that should be $1500 just because it's got a few extra mhz. I would think that as long as they are making money then they wouldn't have a problem. Of course that could just be an excuse for the old bios.

 

[spamboy]

jorburnet, see the last few messages. They were recalled because of issues unrelated to the chip itself. It could have been any processor.

 

[thorin]

It's not a big deal it's one or two suppliers recalling their systems because of Heat and Performance issues. It isn't like Intel is recalling all P4s.

Thorin

 

[Redwingsguy]

I just read in my PDA at school today, the accually processors are NOT being recalled, they updated the bios and requested that the computer companies do it to their computers by them selves, so bestbuy is sending theirs back instead of selling them.

 

[pillage2001]

....., but were suddenly pulled from the shelves because "they were running too fast."


AhAhaHA.....This is another joke from Intel rite?? Tell me it is......Ahaha

 

[Syborg1211]

I think HP and other comp makers like Compaq will need to be a little different with the P4 as they never put a fan on their P3 machines so I guess they are used to not providing enough cooling.

 

[Gunbuster]

Syborg1211: That is a greatly generalized statment and just about totaly wrong.

Compaq, HP, ..... DO put fans on their CPUs, sometimes the use a baffle/off cpu fan combo, but it's still a fan

 

[NOX]

<< News reports of Best Buy's move to yank HP P4 systems touched off a minor recall scare by quoting ill-informed Best Buy sales reps. Reports quoted the Best Buy employees as saying that the P4 machines were experiencing overheating problems or &quot;running too fast.&quot; >>

HAHAHAHA...&quot;ill-informed&quot;.

 

[urbantechie]

Sucks for Intel big time.

 

[Bojo]

How very, very suitable for the release of the P4.

 

[Syborg1211]

I'm sorry, but since I know of three people with fanless compaqs and 4 with fanless HP computers I was assuming most are like that

 

[Usul]

They (intel) just needed it !!!!
Think they gotta hire the blue men for a couple more commercials....

 

[holdencommodore]

Do you get that advertisment too (We get it all the time on channel 10,7 and 9 in Australia!!)!!!!!!!
Makes me laugh every time I see it!!!

I'm sure it will put some people of the processor in the future, unless Intel can prove otherwise...

 

[Zedfu]

delayed, cancelled and recalled: for christ's sake, intel, make up your mind!

 

[Syborg1211]

I think Zedfu neglected to read what people said in the thread and how it wasn't Intel's fault

 

[NOX]

<< I think Zedfu neglected to read what people said in the thread and how it wasn't Intel's fault. >>

That?s usually the case when people make statements like that.