Nvidia's Faulty GPU Settlement Being Challenged
These people aren't happy with having a cheap laptop as a replacement.
The Nvidia GPU faulty material incident, while it's now in the past from a technological standpoint, still stings those whom it affected.
Earlier this year, Nvidia put into action its settlement efforts, in which it offered free repairs for Apple and Dell laptops, and HP laptop owners could qualify for a free replacement laptop of "like or similar kind and value". A free new laptop for your troubles – sound pretty good, right? Members of the class action aren't so pleased, as it feels that Nvidia isn't coming through in that regard.
Nvidia is offering a Compaq Presario CQ56-115DX in replacement for the affected HP machines, which Point of Law notes was sold at Best Buy for $329.99. While it's accepted that computers depreciate very quickly due to the speed of the industry, some feel that this replacement offering is still nowhere near satisfactory in the terms laid out by the settlement.
Class members have approached the Center for Class Action Fairness, which this week has filed expedited motion papers asking the Court to enforce the settlement.
You can't really ask for a laptop of the same value as then you are asking
nV to absorb the depreciation for you. If the specs are the SAME or better, be happy.
Well I guess they aren't because people are complaining. CPU might be around same speed with newer craptops but what about display, weight and battery life.
When they work they work great, but the failure is making me lean toward AMD this round...
wtf..?!
Anyway this lawsuit is so typical in US, thats why US is number 1 in stupidity.
What 3rd world shit-hole are you from?
Have you even been outside of the US in non-commericalized(aka cancun, etc) areas for any length of time?
So why are you visiting a US-based website then?
The site is owned by the BestofMedia group which is a European based corporation - HQ in France I believe.
I have to disagree with you. If nVidia provided faulty hardware that kept people from enjoying their money's worth at the time, they should indeed absorb the depreciation, and even the opportunity cost(the cost of not being able to use your money for something else). If you buy something and its delivered an year later, were you not harmed?
THG was founded by a German ( Dr. Thomas Pabst) and has since been sold to a French company (Best of Media Group) !
I guess YOU will leave the site now :-)
Cheers,
Peter
Incidentally, the "Tom" in Tomshardware is from the founder's name of course. "Tom" is a common short version of "Thomas" in Germany.
More cheers,
Peter (a German too) :-)
Lets use one of the dell xps laptops as an example.
8600gt vs 4225 in the hp machine.
Average 3dmark06 score
8600gt 3269
4225 1091
Even the lowly 8400 gets 1326
Also the cpu while a decent single core cpu, is exactly that a single core when im betting almost all the laptops affected atleast had dual cores.
A sandy bridge i3's gpu or one of the new amd fusion chips would have been a much more acceptable replacement. Or if they want to go older some athlon/phenom x2s or c2ds with a 210/310 or 4570/5450/6370 all of which would still be pretty cheap.
turion 17" hd display the compaq is single core amd v series which is not half the processor. It is 15 inch low res display. It had problems from the start Hp denied a problem till the warranty ran out. I do believe they owe me the same or better specs than I had.
You, sir, are an idiot.