Intel Larrabee - a prototype

[RazorWind]

You would think, but LTT is getting pretty scummy as of late.
Them effectively taking what I rightfully won originally, paying what I had won the bid for to the seller, and then claiming in the video they "paid about $40 USD for it" (it was 10 times that) is just utter bullshit.

I don't get why they'd lie. Isn't the video more interesting if they paid $15K for that thing?

I totally sympathize with you, though. I'd be upset too if they swooped in and sniped my stuff AFTER the auction ended.

 

[Red Falcon]

I don't get why they'd lie. Isn't the video more interesting if they paid $15K for that thing?

I totally sympathize with you, though. I'd be upset too if they swooped in and sniped my stuff AFTER the auction ended.

Probably to make it seem like they are keeping costs low while raking in large amounts of view/ad revenue - this was back in the late 2010s.
LTT is much bigger now, so I would agree with you that the high price tag would probably work better for marketing at this point than it would have 4-5 years ago.

LTT is a business, and I get they are out to make money, but screwing people over and then making no further mention of it is beyond unethical, and it makes them no better than megacorps.
erek even reached out to them about the original Larrabee they had sniped and had since lost it - that is how much any of the history or technology meant to them.

It really isn't about the tech, history, or anything we find value in.
They got the tech, did the "review", and then tossed it aside like every other person or tool that is no longer of use to them.

Oh well, it's just a matter of time before a scandal like money laundering, theft, embezzlement, etc. gets exposed like what has happened to every other large YouTube "tech" channel.
Hope they enjoy it while it lasts, because it never does. 🪦

 

[RazorWind]

Oh well, it's just a matter of time before a scandal like money laundering, theft, embezzlement, etc. gets exposed like what has happened to every other large YouTube "tech" channel.

Say what? Who got caught doing actual crimes?

 

[Red Falcon]

Say what? Who got caught doing actual crimes?

 

[RazorWind]

Oh, yeah, I remember that. I wasn't aware that those counted as "large." I'd never heard of them before that story broke.