Thanks to a settlement in a long - running course of study - action lawsuit , Intel is now offer fifteen shiny dollar to anyone who buy a Pentium 4 - powered PC almost fifteen year ago . One dollar per year of prevarication and wretchedness that you ’ve had to suffer .
The causa hinges on the fact that Intel ‘ manipulate ’ the functioning of the Pentium 4 central processing unit , by contrive benchmarks that claimed to show its processor was higher-ranking to the rival AMD Athlon Thunderbird . This turn out to be a bunch of crap , and as such a group of attorney have expend most of the last X arguing that Intel need to pay off everyone back .
The bottom line , thanks to a recent settlement , is that if you corrupt a Pentium 4 - powered personal computer between November 20 , 2000 , and December 31 , 2001 , you ’re eligible for a $ 15 hard currency payout ( provided you do n’t be in Illinois ) . Notably , there ’s no demand for a reception — only your conscience ( and the dangers of lying under oath ) prevarication between you and rich people .
One in reality productive thing to follow out of this whole affair , though , is the fact that Intel is also having to donate $ 4,000,000 to educational charities . Guess all those legal fees were n’t in vain after all [ Intel Penium 4 SettlementviaThe registry ]
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