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I think it is a short sighted strategy(scratch off processor upgrades) and just opens the door for a new arena of "piracy"- hacking out the extra performance of

• alextgordon 16y ago
  They can easily take the mechanism away from new processors, any time they want. For all anybody knows, this might be profitable.
• amalcon 16y ago
  People already do that! The slower-speed versions of a particular chip are either chips that were flawed and had to be clocked down to work around the flaw, or perfectly good chips that have been clocked down to fill demand. Overclockers have been known to try to clock a "slower" chip to the speed of the high-end ones, and exchange the chip until they get one that works.