it really depends on how it's configured by the OEM... on my laptop (PM45), it's Port 0 for HDD, Port 1 for DVD drive, and Port 5 for e-SATA...

All SB need wait till April?
That really really bad...

if I need a laptop by mid March, does that mean I will more than 90% chance get a non-SB?

no, u can still get a SB laptop, it's juz if u want to take the chances or not...

oo...

BTW, ASUS Malaysia had put up the SB machine.
Wish they release it very very soon.

Anyway, I seldom use DVD-drive nowadays

well if u wan the laptop with Sb just get it
when the port malfunction just get it change
that's all

it's not really that simple...

the issue now, as far as end users are concerned, is if the OEMs would recall the laptops, and if not, wat re they going to do if the mobo spoilts after the warranty...

Excatly. Unless maybe for example Acer give 3 years warranty and the mobo spoilts in 2 year than can get a replacement maybe.

not so simple again... Dell only offered 1 more year of warranty to cover GeForce 8M on top of the original warranty (ie if u ve 1yr warranty for the laptop, ur GPU is covered for 2yrs in total), and nothing after that... to date there are still quite a number of ppl who re still using the original XPS and Inspiron with GeForce 8400M GS, and they are already over the extended warranty...

seldom u see OEMs like BenQ who is willing to cover the GPU indefinitely...

an as far as i can remember, Acer and Asus kept mum during the GeForce 8M issue...

so depending on the OEMs, the outcome may be different too...

This post has been edited by astria: Feb 3 2011, 10:44 AM

Yeah it depends on the OEM to.

gonna go extend my warranty then

again not so simple as well... u never know how long it takes for the port to fail... it can be 1yr, 3yrs, 5 yrs, or never...

the key is wat's the OEM going to do after the warranty is over... doesn't matter if u ve 1 or 3yrs of warranty...

Wah.... guess like I'm really gonna have to wait until April or May for the new, rectified SB processors

The never ending wait

Better safe than sorry? hehehe

by then u may hear AMD say "we ve sth coming up"...

I guess compromises have to be made then
Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year bro

Hi guys,

was browsing through notebookereview forum and found this piece of information.

http://www.intel.com/consumer/products/pro...set+gg_headline

It seems that i7-2630QM is not affected.

What do you guys think?

if its true then my 5750g MIGHT be safe

the CPU is not affected at all... and Intel has reiterated again and again that the CPU has got nothing to do with it...

it's the chipset that goes with Sandy Bridge CPU that is the problem...

Why din they found this problem earlier? Why now? It has been a very long wait though. Might just by the 1st gen processor.