And who can blame after the disgusting way Intel handled that whole situation. It'd be different if they said "we fucked up" and did some kind of recall. But just calling it a "regular support issue" when the hardware is legitimately fucked beyond repair is a whole other ball of wax.
Yep.
And to make matters worse I read they don't always fail right away. So yours could be working fine and then fail after it is out of warranty.
Or an unassuming user blaming their OEM or some other part of their build. I guarantee they did a CBA on the whole thing to see what would be the cheapest thing to do, and it looks like just ignoring it won out.
Ha yes, but clearly they didn't put long term damage to their reputation in that equation.