Ya it the same in a sense.  Intel wants you to pay high prices if you
want a SMP system.  If you make your Celeron a SMP system you will pay
magnitudes less for it.  Your right you can't remarket a Celeron as a
Xeon, but how much performance increase do you get for paying 10 times
as much money to buy a true Xeon system.  Not much, or not enough for
the price I should say.  My point was if something can be cracked
someone will do it.  No matter what.  They are not the evil ones, the
people who actually use the pirated software are.

Used it in what way?  No I havn't really.  I admit I had Photoshop on my
computer for a while, but it sucks.  Always crashes.  So I took it off. 
I never used it though, it was the feeling of haveing an expensive
program on my computer.

Margus Ramst wrote:
> 
> Making a Celeron SMP system is in no way comparable to cracking programs.
> You can't remarket a Celeron-based SMP system as a Xeon system. It's just
> greedy marketing politics, nothing more. Breaking the multiplier lock would
> be a better example. It's not illegal per se, but it allows for illegal
> remarketing of overclocked processors. Not that I support multiplier (or
> bus) locking in any way.
> 
> And you mean to say you never used the working warez you DLed? Well, if you
> say so. I'm not the one to impugn your integrity :)
> 
> Margus
> 
> portelli wrote in message <37197A90.CFEDEAE2@pilot.msu.edu>...
> >There will always be warez software.  If there is copy protection
> >someone will want to find a way to crack it.  Like with Playstation
> >games, and finding out how to make the Celeron SMP capable.  I used to
> >like just trying to find a working copy of programs.  It was all in the
> >search.  When I obtained a working program I just kept it as a trophy,
> >until I ran out of diskspace.  Now I search for good freeware programs.
> >(Which is harder since there is so much out there.)
> >

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