Intel Resumes Shipments of Faulty Cougar Point

[Belardo]

So it'll only be useful for the lower end notebooks that DON'T have eSATA connectors. Sure, 2 is fine...

 

[Pallimud]

Makes sense instead of wasting so much money. I'm sure Dell and these other companies can use these flawed processors on their budget systems. Most people who buy those things don't upgrade anything and just toss them after 5 years or less.

 

[akula2]

This is retard.
There should be Class Action Suit against the Intel et al.

 

[wawa sxm]

lol my sandy bridge works fine, for all you nay sayers see it was only the sata 3gb port....and why do you want to sue? is that your answer to everything, 3 of my xbox rrod sur them for that nuh?

 

[ProDigit10]

For most people a single SATA connector for HD,and a secondary for Blueray drive is good enough. Especially for HTPC's
Any additional drives can always be installed via a pcie or pci to sata interface, that is, if they are not blocked by dual graphics cards,which most htpc's aren't, since they probably could host upto 1 external graphics card.

 

[turbolover22]

[citation][nom]akula2[/nom]This is retard. There should be Class Action Suit against the Intel et al.[/citation]


For what?!?! Preventing the situation where you can buy a faulty chipset and sue them for a free board?

[citation][nom]Twist86[/nom]I have to say a boo to Intel on this one. Man up and take the hit for selling a defective product. Makes me rethink buying their products if they have a defect and they just ignore it for money.[/citation]


Did you not read the article? That is exactly what Intel is doing. They are coming out and saying there is a potential problem. We won't let you buy our potentially problematic products. They will obviously take a big hit in the beginning until they can get fixed parts available.

I do the same thing when I sell computer parts. If 80% of the reviews on a product say it died after 1 year, I don't sell the part to someone. If there is a known potential problem I take the hit, not some poor sap down the road.


[citation][nom]emmanuelxian07[/nom]...so I won't be needing more than 2 ports, but because of Intel's recall, I can't buy anything at all. Besides, it will take a long time before the bug kicks in. This gives Intel ample time to make replacement boards and have them available on the market to replace existing boards...[/citation]

So who are you that Intel must cater to your every whim? Why do they have to allow you to buy something you know may be faulty so that they can send you a new board in 3 years at their cost?

Intel should put out a restraining order that prevents you from ever buying their products.


Why can't they just cut their losses on this product now so that they can put that money into another super fantastic product down the road?

 

[davewolfgang]

This is retard.
There should be Class Action Suit against the Intel et al.

Oh what grounds? Really - think about it. The CAUGHT the problem - admitted it and took action.

Class actions are for companies that DON'T do that.

 

[Guest]

Illio & KingGremlin: Apparently comprehension is not either of your's strong suit. The Cougar Point chipset comes with 2 sata6g ports (not "atleast 2"), and the rest are the faulty sata3g ports. Therefore if everyone is going to use 2 devices, and most will use atleast 3, that means most have to use a faulty one. Let that one marinate for a bit, and then you should properly understand the situation.

 

[Resteasy]

^what?
my board comes with 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors. So 'at least 2' seems to be correct.

 

[klussic]

There is no shame on Intel here at all. They are ONLY selling to OEMS who will use additional SATA card. Why waste all of those already produced motherboards when there are perfectly reasonable workarounds? Just upgrade to SATA III or get a PCIe SATA card.

 

[emmanuelxian07]

So who are you that Intel must cater to your every whim? Why do they have to allow you to buy something you know may be faulty so that they can send you a new board in 3 years at their cost?

Intel should put out a restraining order that prevents you from ever buying their products.

You're asking who I am? Well unlike you, I am someone who speaks not only for himself, but also for those who are just like me who still wants to buy Intel's boards even though there's a bug. Things can be done to compromise with this issue, so we don't really care about the bug. And with regards to selling the board to me now and replace it after 3 years, well if you think of it, there's basically very little difference between selling it now then replace it in a few months, and recalling the items now then release a new replacement after a few months. Either way, they will have to get the boards back at one point and provide a new one. One benefit I can see from this is that Intel can take the money of those who are willing to invest on a flawed board, save it, then use it to make better boards. At least this way, they already have the commitment of customers as early as now. With regards to law suite? I'm not sure. Maybe get everyone to sign a waiver or something (to be done by those who sell the boards, not Intel).

Why can't they just cut their losses on this product now so that they can put that money into another super fantastic product down the road?

Now my question is, who are you to advise Intel something like this? In my case on the above statement, I'm not advising Intel. I'm merely stating an opinion. 😉