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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. Re:MS Windows? by 0123456 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Isn't this how Windows works now? There's a window somewhere which says that for $80 I can enable the 'Pro' features of Windows 7 that are already installed on my PC.