Noting that consumer protection laws over-ride anything stated in a warranty limitations statement...
On 5 Jan. 2018 1:19 am, "Giles Pollock" <[email protected]> wrote: > From their warranty section: > > WHAT THIS LIMITED WARRANTY DOES NOT COVER: > • design defects or errors in the Product (Errata). Contact Intel for > information on characterized errata. > • any costs associated with the repair or replacement of the Product, > including costs of removal or replacement of the Product; > • damage to the Product, or errors or malfunctions in the Product, due to > accident, abnormal electrical, mechanical or environmental conditions, use > contrary to product instructions, misuse, neglect, alteration, mishandling, > repair, improper installation or testing, combinations with incompatible > products or any third party virus, infection, worm or similar malicious > code; > • that the Product will protect against all possible security threats, > including intentional misconduct by third parties; > • any Product which has been modified or operated outside of Intel’s > publicly available specifications, including where clock frequencies or > voltages have been altered, or where the original identification markings > have been removed, altered or obliterated. Intel assumes no responsibility > that the Product, including if used with altered clock frequencies or > voltages, will be fit for any particular purpose and will not cause any > damage or injury. > > Option 1 and 4 seems to have them covered :-( > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 1:07 AM, James Hodgkinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Watch them pull out the “this warranty doesn’t actually cover anything, >> and we don’t say it’ll work in all conditions” card. It’ll be nice to get a >> free CPU if they do have to, however! :) >> >> On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, at 18:32, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote: >> >> If the hardware is under warranty, I'd be expecting the vendor to replace >> the CPU's with updated ones which are not affected? (oh man that's going >> to hurt Intel?) >> >> On 4 January 2018 at 16:31, Burt Mascareigne <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> So, with this performance hit, does that mean we have to buy more Intel >> Servers to cope O_o >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *Burt Mascareigne Mobile* 0414 450 962 *Office* (02) 9965 5422 >> *Address* Level 19, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney NSW 2000 >> *Web* http://www.stormnetwork.com.au [image: 01-300x70] >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Paul >> Wilkins >> *Sent:* Thursday, 4 January 2018 3:52 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management >> >> >> >> Fix for security bug in Intel CPUs will be released patch Tuesday, and >> predictions are of a 5 - 30% performance hit. >> >> This is a problem in cloud, but I'm sure it will all be good on the day :) >> >> Kind regards >> >> Paul Wilkins >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Damien Gardner Jnr >> VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust >> [email protected] - http://www.rendrag.net/ >> -- >> We rode on the winds of the rising storm, >> We ran to the sounds of thunder. >> We danced among the lightning bolts, >> and tore the world asunder >> >> *_______________________________________________* >> AusNOG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > >
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