no one wins except the lawyers . . .
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no one wins here . . .
what Apphole is forgetting is that Samsung is also one of the large SDRAM / Flash RAM chip etc. Manufacturers
you don't think that a bump in RAM prices won't happen as a result of this?
that little bump in RAM prices will hurt everyone
from the major OEM System Mfg to the consumer looking to upgrade
lawsuits like this never benefit anyone but lawyers
a lot of the HDD mfg. also use Samsung RAM for the Cache-RAM on the PCB
when that little 8, 16, 32, 64MB chip doubles in price you think the HDD price won't go up in drastic proportion as well
look at the prices over the flooding in Thailand,
WD, Seagate, never lost any facility, only access to / from the facility was lost
so with the little interruption in production they raise prices to nearly double what they were pre-flood and are still milking it
I just received recently, new HDDs with Thai stickers on them with post flood mfg. dates
so they're back in business and now just milking the market
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they won't take it lying down and they'll pass the expense of this on to the consumer
