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[–] Exusia 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's pretty shitty to continue to sell a part that they know is defective.

[–] lath -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yet they do it all the time when a higher specs CPU is fabricated with physical defects and is then presented as a lower specs variant.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nobody objects to binning, because people know what they're getting and the part functions within the specified parameters.

[–] lath -2 points 5 months ago

And so do these, under the updated parameters.