Many features of products aren't advertised explicitly. You don't expect those to be disabled, however, if part of the reason you purchased it was because you f

Many features of products aren't advertised explicitly. You don't expect those to be disabled, however, if part of the reason you purchased it was because you found out it was there. I can see Intel's rationale if it were never promised, but the timing of the removal of the feature is suspect. If Intel is doing this because it sees some level of future chip sales being negatively impacted by a feature that is in the chip that they previously gave customers access to, then they should be held accountable in my opinion. If nothing else people burned by this can chalk another one up to Intel's misguided sales team. It's as if Intel is asking for this sort of attention lately.