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Dodecahedron Fun
It’s been too long and I’m upgrading. I bought an Intel Core i9-9900 CPU, and it arrived in the all-time strangest box I’ve ever seen. I confess that it took me a minute to figure out how to open it (look for the tape holding it together). If I’d been given a choice of saving $10 and getting a regular box, I would've gone that route. The rest will be easy.
–Steve G
While Intel is the latest to produce some frankly ridiculous packaging, you can’t lay all the blame at its door, as AMD’s Threadripper chips set the level that Intel felt it had to beat. It’s fairly obvious that this has been done to make the whole experience more of an event for the end user, which
