X-Cop Fly Company » box http://xcopfly.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:30:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Newegg CPU Recall – An Obvious Prank, Made In China http://xcopfly.com/2010/03/11/newegg-cpu-recall-an-obvious-prank-made-in-china/ http://xcopfly.com/2010/03/11/newegg-cpu-recall-an-obvious-prank-made-in-china/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:17:53 +0000 xcopfly http://xcopfly.com/?p=1273 You might have heard of computer supplier Newegg accidentally shipping computer builders boxed “processors”.

This is no ordinary counterfeit import issue – I found a nice article describing the shipments – the CPU was a piece of lead, with a sticker of a fan attached to a “heatsink” piece of molded plastic. And, of course, the usual translation issues.

Check out the article at PCMag’s Gearlog for pictures of this early April Fool’s joke.

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