Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU

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MBCook

on Saturday September 18, 2010 @07:40PM

MBCook writes "Turnkey CPU upgrades aren't just for mainframes any more. 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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