 Permalink for comment 441719 by tyrel on Mon 20th Sep 2010
02:09 UTC Member since:  So I buy a CPU for $100 that I can
enable features on for $50. So I actually bought a $150 CPU in
the first place. Apparently it didn't cost Intel any more to
produce that $150 CPU than it would have to produce a $100 CPU
-- otherwise they would either have to charge $150 for it in the
first place, to make any margin, or make two completely
different versions. So in this case it looks like Intel has come
up with a way to make two hugely different levels of profit
margin off an identical profit. Makes me wonder if they haven't
been selling us all hugely powerful CPUs forever and just
dumbing them down a bit. Good for profits, bad morally, I say.
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