Am 16.09.2011 17:49, schrieb Invisible:

> http://tinyurl.com/5sgxmxk
>
> How the heck does /that/ work?!

Some CPU models differ only in components that have been deliberately 
disabled in the lower-priced version, to either...

a) increase the production yield, by simply de-activating faulty 
components that aren't vital to the CPUs overall functioning, and 
selling such CPUs at a lower price, or

b) open additional market segments for an already existing CPU design 
originally aimed at a small, high-margin segment, by selling it at a 
significantly lower price in order to target a large but low-margin 
segment, artificially reducing the processing power to make the 
lower-price variant unfit for the high-margin market segment.

Apparently, the latter is the case for the CPUs in question, and Intel 
sales people have found yet another market share to benefit from: That 
of people who originally purchased one of those lower-price CPUs, would 
now like to have more processing power, but aren't willing to pay the 
price for a completey new CPU (or even a new computer, in case the CPU 
is soldered rather than socketed).

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