I’ve almost hit a wall with my system. My AMD 3800 x2+ is beginning to feel la little dated. It will do almost any normal thing I throw at it but sadly on the last movie we edited the team had to shoot in 720p because my system kept choking up with the 1080p stuff.
Think have about a year and a 1/2 left on this system before I get another (if I have the cash at that time)
Interestingly, they already do this with boat engines. Many boat companies build their boat engines with the same specs, then use a chip to lock it down to a certain level of horsepower. You just take it into the shop to upgrade it. So Intel is borrowing an already implemented idea.
From my prospective this isn’t something that should be instantly feared. It could lead to good things as both a consumer and Intel as a business. It has the potential to lower the cost of CPUs. Also its unlikely that it will be introduced and then standard processors will be cut right away. Everyone here assumes that this will cause Intel to rase prices but I think it will do the opposite.
Giving computer illiterate consumers the ability to upgrade easily, would drive more upgrade sales. This increase in sales could that they make more money on cheaper sales then on high priced sales.
Computers have been getting cheaper and cheaper over the years. Innovations like these would have been controversial in the early days of computers early computers had internet. Give it a chance, later on you may feel foolish for condemning a perfectly good business model, that would make the availability of computers cheaper and more wide spread.
TL;DR: Atm the only flaw with this new scheme is how Intel will price it. It has just as much potential to be an amazing innovation in computers as a horrid scheme to swindle uneducated buyers.
I won’t buy one unless I am 100% sure I can unlock it’s true potential using leet hax of some sort right after I buy it.
I bet intel will have a scheme where the more advanced the upgrade the harder it is to hack, and have every CPU comes equipped with a built-in ethernet LAN adapter so that all hacked chips will be permanently bricked via the internet unless kept offline in some way.
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