Pentium 4 class action settlement
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Individuals? Certainly not. The avid gamer or early tweaker probably returned that chip before the warranty even ran out, and after word got out, that category just went with AMD processors. And the average household didn't understand the graphs, so they had no idea their computer should have been able to work faster than it actually did (if it did go slow, windows usually got the blame).
...but on company and retailer side, that's a completely different approach. These guys buy large quantities of computers, so if they don't perform as advertised, there is actually something to gain. One computer who runs at 80% of advertised speed is kind of 'meh'. But if you've got hundreds of those PC's, it's quite a different thing. I bet some system administrators got quite some bad evaluations after an expensive rollout of new material didn't improve the "the computers are too slow" much...
actually, the 2007 ArsTechnica article says the class action was filed five years earlier, which mean it was 2002.
My bad, not sure why I put 2007. Either way I meant to say it was some years in the past that it all kicked off.
Class action lawsuits are almost invariably long winded and protracted legal matters, why do you think most companies have a waiver for them in their EULA?
Also relevant
http://www.dandodiary.com/2013/04/a...g-and-size-of-securities-lawsuit-settlements/ (granted this is for securities/investors rather than consumers)
http://currylawgroup.com/class-action-lawsuits/
I thought it was simply because it cost them money, not because they took 12 years
That's why the settlement is $15, they divided it up among the number of people they figured would try to get the settlement.
Lemme check my 'ol Dell Latitude CPX...
Yup, as I thought: a Pentium iii. (Yes, the sticker has three lowercase i's on it.)
Now if only I could get that sound card working in FreeDOS...then we could be rocking Descent full turbo right now. Funny, I can use USB drives, bot not the sound card... XP
Yup, as I thought: a Pentium iii. (Yes, the sticker has three lowercase i's on it.)
Now if only I could get that sound card working in FreeDOS...then we could be rocking Descent full turbo right now. Funny, I can use USB drives, bot not the sound card... XP
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Oh my God, Celerons were so horrible!! My mom's old desktop, Dell Dimension 3000, has a Celeron D using an Intel 82865G iGPU. Yes, I used to PC game on a potato back in middle school, which was I think from 2005-2008. I only played Halo PC where, due to the old GPU, everyone had white armor and the ground always looked like stale pudding. I actually played a lot of Doom 2 mods via Skulltag as well. I wanted to play Team Fortress 2 but it ran at 5fps, so I spent my birthday money on an 8400GS which I got for around $75. I only got a 3fps boost. My friend to this day plays his games on a Dell Dimension 3000 as well, but it has a Pentium processor and with that same 8400GS I gave him, I had built a rig two years back, and with that processor, he gets about 30fps average on medium settings on GMOD and 25-30fps on Borderlands 2 on low settings. Pentiums back then, I agree, weren't very good, but they're pretty much bang for the buck CPU's nowadays.
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