The shitstorm of a fallout has pushed the community behind Billet Labs more than they ever would have gotten had they just gotten reviewed properly. It may have sucked what had happened but I think they will be better off in the long term now that people are aggressively supportive of them. Funny twist of fate in my opinion.
Billet Labs decided that they don’t want it back and just want the compensation instead. They started to make a new prototype as it is likely faster than them getting back the original if at all. Can’t say I blame them.
I may be wrong but didn’t LMG put it in their tormach to shave off THERMAL MASS such that the block didn’t interfere with RAM?
They knowingly destroyed a prototype in the video. Off course Billet has to cut their losses with this shit.
Edit: I was wrong. See comment below. That happens when you watch a video on second screen :)
Billet Labs made a post on reddit and in that post had a comment update saying this. They mentioned they already had started making a new prototype as they can’t guarantee that it would still be in usable condition as well as some other reasons.
The just seem to have no documentation going on.
They not only accidentally auctioned of the prototype, they also lost the 3090Ti that was send with the prototype, you know the proper card to test that on, they lost the sheet of who they auctioned what to - and that’s just the stuff in this single case. I can only imagine that they just have a single crammed storage room where they just randomly drop things and hope to find them later when they need it.
Problem is, we don’t know how many companies folded because of flawed reviews.
If you’re just a small company, it’s already hard enough to compete with the big guys, but if then there’s a bad review on LTT, you might as well just close shop. And given how poorly things went over the last months, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are 20 more reviews with just as bad preparation.
I guess we will find out soon enough. LTT is currently being scrutinized with a fine tooth comb.
I still wish we would have gotten a proper benchmark of their prototype :-/
If it actually works well they could always release a cheaper mass produced version down the line.
Somewhere in my imagination the person who got the prototype sends it to Gamers Nexus and they make a proper review.
I mean, the kind of person who would get this thing is the kind of person that pays attention to the industry and to linus tech tips, I am sure they are aware about all of this.
Who would win?
One metally boi
or
One early 2000s P!nk-loving hypocritical Lesbian
While probably true, they just got really lucky and won a sort of internet shitstorm lottery.
Feel bad for all of the other folks over the last few years whose businesses were damaged by LTT that we’ve never heard of. Never will hear of.
