I've got an i5 ivy bridge laptop that has it disabled. the next model up had one. 'standard' my ass.

I'd actually love to see something like a tablet that has some kind of weak Core M but can dock to a device that chills it and attaches a GPU and unlocks it's own TDP to suddenly be a full fledge desktop speed broadwell.

Yeah, 4chan is much better for children. /I grew up on it. I'm fine.

If 15.04 really were a beta for 16.04, it would be called THE FUCKING 16.04 BETA. But no, they push it as 'release' so it should be fucking HELD TO THAT. /rant

Citation needed.

Do you earn more than 40/hr? Is that hour better spent doing other things? If YES, then yes, you value your time enough to compensate somebody else less than your own value to do you work for you.

I bet you think companies should be free to dump toxic waste into rivers and lakes, and that emissions controls on cars is 'treading on you'. Idiot.

I wish those E3v3's were unlocked. I run my haswell i5 well above 4ghz and being locked would be slower than i've got, even with HT.

Joke aside, AMD hasn't resembled Intel since the P2 days. P4 and Athlon were worlds apart. Haswell and AMD 8-core are vastly different even though they end up at the same multi-thread goal post. Zen is going to be some weird x86 AMD hybrid with HSA. Intel isn't even rolling HSA out any time this decade.

Yeah my buddy used to bring home and show off things under NDA that would give competitors an edge too. He got fired.

Yeah laptops have some extreme thermal constraints that desktops simply have never had to deal with. Your average desktop chip is cooled by 8oz of alum and a loud, high speed fan (when PWM scales it up). Your average laptop has a postage stamp worth of heatsink fins at 2-4oz for weight budget, a heat pipe or two, and an anemic fan that can't move much air, and the air it IS moving is through a channel the size of a mouses ear.

I fall under that age group and call it "practicality". I also don't give one *flying fuck* about the profit margins of a massive corporation that has shady business practices, so if i can rip them off while they rip me off, much the better.

Correct. I had 200 out of 200 (for the math nerds, that's 100% of a large sample size) Dell Latitude D820's fail due to nVidia GPU. Never overclocked, barely ever used for gaming. The GPU was pretty useless to us but they came with them so *shrug*.

They don't need a MITM to run client-side regex against certain keywords.

You can poll the tracker and get your own stats. The trackers won't lie, or, at least, would be HIGHLY improbable to do so, since that would be complicated convoluted code to spot music and movie keywords and keep up with that over time.