I LOVE Paywalls. Thanks Intel! - ECC Support on Alder Lake

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12th Gen Intel supports ECC memory, but you're going to need a specific chipset to utilize it. A chipset only available on expensive workstation motherboards that lack other features you might want... So just how badly do you need Error Correction Code memory in the first place?

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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

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0:00 Intro
1:25 12th Gen Intel
2:24 Pentium G6951
5:04 ECC Today
7:44 Thanks Intel
9:00 Business Time
10:25 AMD
11:28 Conclusion
12:39 Outro

[jack_brooks]

There's another major problem to this locking strategy that was not mentioned by Linus. We spent $60, 000 on a Keysight network analyzer and years later we wanted to enable one of the software locked features. The instrument works just fine, but Keysight wouldn't take our money because it was considered obsolete. So there is this "eventual locked feature set problem" to this sales paradigm.

[انا_ابراهيم_البناوي]

The Fact you have to pay a subscription to use standard equipment in your own car or item that you bought is just insane and no it's not okay it's like buying your house and not being able to access to 2nd floor because you need to pay more to access the rest of your house it's just stupid and crazy

[ghost_ship_supreme]

Subscription services are the worst thing to appear this century. Companies were like “your money isn’t good enough, we want MORE!” It’s like invasive computing, but worse. (Or was it called invasive IOT?)

[TheSteveTheDragon]

Can't wait to see cracks for hardware paywalls.

[Tehscottinator]

My first build was an unlocked AMD 3 core. Loved that free 4th core and overclocked to perform like something three times the price.

[markxlii]

Imagine when Linus learns digital oscilloscopes have their sampling rates artificially limited by software.

[LiamDilley]

I remember taking a silver pen and rejoining cut lines on down graded AMD chips and getting more. Fun old times!

[anekroth]

I've always hated the concept of having to pay extra for features that already exists in the hardware you already purchased. I'm a network engineer so I deal with Cisco a lot, and Cisco is one of the worst offenders when it comes to that kind of business practice. It drives me crazy sometimes.

[FoxxFire]

Just wanted to say how much I respect - despite all the partnerships you do with Intel (sponsored videos, including the $5, 000 extreme intel upgrade, and being given access to otherwise restricted areas to make awesome videos about the chip-making process for your audience) - you still have the balls to call the company out when its practice in some area is, shall we say, less than consumer friendly. This is exactly why we trust videos from this channel. Thank you, LMG. Sincerely, everyone.

[alistairblaire]

This is all one aspect of bigger industry problems: the push toward subscriptions for literally everything, and certain industry leaders inventing new ways to squeeze their customers and the rest of the industry following. And those things are of course part of the even bigger picture - chasing after infinite growth.

[nitewing]

The i486SX was a DX with the math coprocessor deactivated by different PGA. You could plug a i487 coprocessor into the SX board and get that functionality. The 487 was also a DX chip. So intel made you pay for 2 DX chips if you opted for the upgrade route instead of buying the DX chip from the start. So it’s not the first time intel did that, the 486 came out in 1989…

[ELSTERLING]

I still remember being delighted to find by Athlon 445 unlocked instantly and flawlessly in to being a Phenom B45. 33% more cores just by changing a BIOS setting.

[wahababdul]

Louis Rossman talks about what Tesla is doing a lot and he made a good point. Even if you were okay with the fact that you had to pay to unlock features like heated seats, the manufacturer is still putting them in adding to the weight of you car and reducing your potential mileage and you have to essentially pay to not have dead weight in your car

[xiong]

This explains why back in 2006, when I was building my first budget PC, Ebay sellers were selling a bunch of ddr2 eec memory with "AMD ONLY" in the description. I bought 2x1gb ddr2 eec for cheap, ran Athlon 64, and had a Gigabyte motherboard. Was able to play The Sims 2 no problem.

[Squary]

People have become ok with renting things and having multiple subscriptions running at the same time. This is the best that could have ever happened to larger companies as they'd rather sell their products but still effectively own their products and do with them as they wish.

[lulcy]

6:45 I’m assuming this was just a mistake, but I’m sure we’d all appreciate it if you guys were consistent with the order of the items on the graph so we didn’t have to keep looking back and forth between the data and the memory they correspond to

[swirrllfolfsky]

They should just have it unlocked by default, and then if a user wants the features, they just have to activate it in the bios.

[JeffJK]

I love Paywalls! they are great! I love reading through a 1/4 of an article, then having to pay a subscription fee to read the rest of it.
Whoever first thought of this life changing feature deserves a nobel prize.

[IrrelevantArt]

Here is the thing.
if it was a 1 time payment, it's all cool.
But the way things are going, it's very likely that features in products will become services you have to pay for the time you want to use em.
Like with the heated seats you mentioned before.

[kidwajagstang]

The big issue is that regardless if used or not, you are still paying the materials cost. They aren’t giving a discount on the materials cost just because it’s not getting used. They are actually getting paid twice for one feature!