So you're saying that IBM got their representitives to do more than necessary to cover up the fact that the upgrade as just a flip of a switch? That they were c

So you're saying that IBM got their representitives to do more than necessary to cover up the fact that the upgrade as just a flip of a switch? That they were conscious of what their customers would think - business customers that are probably far more understanding of this type of arrangement than the average consumer? The fact that we know it's been going on a while means nothing to the average consumer. Crippling of CPUs used to be magic that happened at the chip fabs that only people connected to the industry knew about. Now consumers are being openly told that their chips have been crippled in software, and if they pay more, that magical switch will be flipped. I don't know if there'll be a big backlash or not, but this is not business as usual. Intel's small step forward has suddenly made the pratice visible.