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This is not a new idea. HP, Sun, IBM were doing this in the 90s. I remember calling HP when they shipped us a Unix system with 8 procs with 4 were supposed to be on and only 2 were. This was around 1998.

This is not a new idea. HP, Sun, IBM were doing this in the 90s. I remember calling HP when they shipped us a Unix system with 8 procs with 4 were supposed to be on and only 2 were. This was around 1998.

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[–] • 3 pts

Reminds me of the old 80486 SX chip which I understand was made by first manufacturing a full featured 80486 DX, and then doing additional manufacturing steps to disable certain DX capabilities.

Economics fact of the day: price has nothing to do with cost.

[–] • 0 pt

Pricing has to do with what people are willing to pay for a product or service and nothing else. If they will pay more than it costs to provide, someone will provide it. If they will only pay less than it costs to provide, nobody will provide it.

[–] • 2 pts

You won't own anything and you will like it

Eat the bugs

[–] • 0 pt

They've been doing this before with the "triple core" AMD athlon and phenoms remember those? They disabled the one core out of "quality concern" then people unlock those cores with a 70% success rate. There will be more silicon hacks and unlocks in our future. :) Bring it.