Recent content by prawny12009

If Intel can make profit selling you a nerfed i7 as an i5 at a cheaper price the only thing it proves is that the i7 could have been the same price as the i5 to begin with. I'm not against binning defective parts down to a lower performance sku, but this is different this is taking functional...

The issue isn't Intel trying to charge you for "additional" features that already exist the issue is that Intel already made profit on the crippled chip proving that they could have easily sold it with its full feature set for that price to begin with so the budget cpu needn't have ever been...

I know this is old but I don't think anyone answered the question, the 3.5mm s/w Jack is usually the remote power or bass control volume socket (a small knob)