Bad intel chip

My laptop is only a few months old been having problems for about 5 weeks installing adobe flash player known fact that adobe is having trouble installing only on intel computers not only that my computer freezes when trying to download anything becomes unresponsive called tech support on friday 10-21-11 tech spent over 3 hours trying to install adobe flash he installed it from an unknown site with my anti virus deactivated and gave me over 10 thousand mal-ware and adware not including viruses was transferred over to case manager and he was like oh no big deal like you dont go to any unknown sites  I reply no I dont any way this laptop has been confirmed by 2 tech support people that I have the bad intel chip and it says on hp website that if you believe you have a computer with defective intel chip you could even ask for a comparable laptop or refund hp stop lying to people and stand behind what you say that you will do  that should be enough for any one not to buy an hp computer and besides that corporate case manager was very rude

Oddly enough, the problem went away with another reboot! I thought this wasn't supposed to happen on Linux!
Thank you all for your comments, I'll bookmark this thread for when another reboot makes it come back .

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