I saw this on 6502.org and the topic is:
Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do

Don't you feel justified by not building on the x86 platform?

They design and manufacture a product but they sell a limited version.
Then they sell the withdrawal of the restriction.

I am not sure that this is lawful...

your comparing eggs with fruit.

What this causes in the consumer market is more confusing then it already is.

I know if this is going to be a common market practice you will see a rise in hardware hackers and will find some keys on the web for systems like this, some fake some real and some blocked.

Mainframes aren't sold to common house holds, Car manufactures see that some engines they sold are getting tuned and tweaked by some of their costumers.

So if this is gonna be a common practice i hope Intel is satisfied with it sales, since i would see a rise in some unlocking tools. ;)

Without an initial ad, I wonder about the morality of this kind of practice where a simple quidam discovers that its purchase does not match the ads have.

This exercise is similar to manipulation where it splits information channels based on the profile (This practice comes from the communication State and taken up by the crisis communication).

In appearance it is legal but not in detail.

I don't know if it is the site or my ISP but this site is very slow for me today.

I really don't understand what's so bad about it. You got what you paid for, and if the value for the price didn't fit your expectations, well, buy something else.

Greetings,

Thomas

Basically
If you buy two lungs, it is to breathe with two lungs.
be obliged to purchase two and being able to use a single is called in the forced sale. Unless you are advised that your purchase can do more... And in the absence of contrary evidence, this is not the case !

Often there is a higher demand for the lower end model because it is cheaper to buy, the manufacturer will often end up locking units on chips with nothing wrong in order to keep up with demand for the lower end model.

Now imagine that you are building a new system and you like to play the latest games and also encode video or do 3D rendering.  You've been doing a fair bit of research and you've seen from review sites that a Radeon 5870 paired with a an 2.7Ghz core i7 will allow you to play all your games smoothly at 1920x1080 but if you buy a lower spec graphics card you may have to compromise on the quality settings in certain games.  You can get either core i7 with either 2, 4 or 6 cores, you know that your video encoding or whatever will benefit from more cores, but the models with more cores come at a higher price.

In the end you go for the 2 core CPU because it means you can get the 5870 and all you games can be played at the highest settings.  Later on you start to find feel that you need a 4 core CPU for your non gaming activities.  Now would you rather pay the difference between the 2 and the 4 core CPU on the upgrade or would you rather shell out the full price of the 4 core CPU?

Ah yes the age old speed binning.
In a pure and simple fact here most cases are chemically severed.
in a video-card it is the BIOS or switched off due to defect.

If you activate such cores it is at own risk.

Now intel thinks to make quick money.
and quickly gained is quickly lost.
I am sure in the home circuit these CPU's will get quickly unlocked with no pay to intel.
This will of course in the future lead to return of the old chemically disabled units as they now do at AMD since even motherboard producers make the unlocking easy.   

And remember the full version does not 50 dollars more. ;)
To get from economic to the full cost 50 dollars.

So if your born for a dime you cannot become a quarter.
And if you think you can sit on the front row for a dime your wrong too.