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"Considering the problems with the Pentium" The Pentium problems consist of five missing entries in a floating point lookup table. Unless the application is doing a huge amount of floating point calculations, the "problem" is essentially a non-issue in practical terms for the vast majority of users. Intel, of course, did a horrible job of dealing with the flaw and it's understandable that every user wants a "perfect" Pentium (which is why I've already placed a call to Intel's replacement line). But there's no reason to overstate the flaw as if it is some crippling defect. It isn't.