It’s cool, I understand that old people have trouble understanding new technology (*cough* Senator Grassley *cough*). But when it’s your job to understand and make BINDING LEGAL RULINGS on technology, you have to at least know the difference between iOS and Windows 7.
Looks like Northern Calfornia district judge James Ware doesn’t. In NVIDIA’s class-action settlement (in which owners of Apple, HP and Dell notebook running NVIDIA graphics hardware had malfunctioned), he just ruled that replacing faulty MacBook Pros running GeForce 8400M and 8600M graphics cards with sub-$US500, entry-level Compaq CQ-56′s would be acceptable which, of course, it isn’t. They run on entirely different operating systems. [via Electronista]
Phillip Tola
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 9:44 AMMind you, MacBooks don’t run iOS either…
Swift
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 10:54 AMThis is the problem with vendor software lockin.
The fault was with the hardware, the replacement laptop had working hardware. The fact that it couldn’t run an operating system is pretty much irrelevant to the court proceedings.
Equivalent in regards to this case is all about hardware capability, software was not part of it at all.
Still
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 12:05 PMits still like comparing apples and oranges…
would you like it if you had a $2000 fancy car and the insurance company replaces it with a sub $500 car… but hey the $500 car gets you from point A to Point B isnt that what you wanted?
Yeah i wouldnt be too happy
Fancy?
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 12:21 PMWhat kind of “fancy” car do you get for $2000? lol
glennc
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 1:01 PMwhat a surprise, another example of a useless court system
Dexx
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 3:15 PMHey, since when do we get upset about getting an upgrade!?