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Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities

Posted by Soulskill on from the say-no-to-hardware-dlc dept.

MBCook writes "Turnkey CPU upgrades aren't just for mainframes anymore. According to Engadget, OEMs (including Gateway) are selling computers with the Intel Pentium G6951, which can have extra cache and hyper-threading enabled through a $50 software unlock called Intel Upgrade Service."

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  1. Yeah, That'll Last by MoonBuggy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Crack coming out in 3...2...1...

    1. Re:Yeah, That'll Last by BlkRb0t · · Score: 5, Funny

      Finally, we can pirate hardware.

    2. Re:Yeah, That'll Last by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, a one-time pad is a butterfly-shaped absorbant sheet of cotton and/or synthetic fiber. It goes where no Slashdotter has gone before.

  2. Re:Similar experience at bestbuy by Kitkoan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fifteen enormous cocks raping every orifice in your body.

    I couldn't describe hiring the geeksquad any better then that.

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    Attention... all grammer nazi"s! Is they're anything; wrong with: my post,
  3. Re:What's next, Windows only CPUs? by tomz16 · · Score: 5, Funny

    EXACTLY! I'm new at this stuff too, and I think you are on to something. You just have to boolean the bit that controls the memory hash function pointer. Then you can probably just decrypt the parity bit endian stack!