At 09.45 2005.05.03 +0200, you wrote:
>> What's the difference if they replace the 4MHz-only chips to 
>> me or to the eBay seller? None.. just an excuse not to do it!
>
>Maybe the seller got them *with the message that they were 4 MHz only*?
>In that case there was nothing wrong with uChip selling them to the
>seller, so why should they take them back?

Then they should update the datasheet, not just provide erratas 1 year
after the bug was already known. When you wake up in the morning do you
use to check all the new erratas for all the chips you use? Or do you
rather read the newspaper?

Also, I don't think that running 1/10th than the advertised speed is ever
a "feature", or that is something one could expect. Sure I expect minor
problems to appear in erratas, problems that can be worked around and
circumvented by a firmware update in the worst case, not a h/w bug that
makes the chip workable as advertised only if used at much lower speeds..

But maybe I'm the only one? Can you imagine buying a car that is advertised
to reach 200 Km/h but then you discover that it can't do better than 30 Km/h?
"You should have read the errata". Oh sure.. stupid me!
 

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