"Like I said in my earlier message, you are challenging the tests and specs, so the burden of proof is on you. Prove that it is intentionally crippled. Read the report for yourself that was done by a third party. " No, the burden of proof is not on me... the proof is far too obvious to be worth wasting further time with a mindless fanatic. In any case, the blindingly obvious decpetion wasn't even necessary to sell the computers to any but the least intelligent, so unless the goal was to insult the intelligence of the target market, I don't see why they bothered.