Get ready for Socket M2

[2cpuminimum]

NEW! Dual core processors, now with built in hard-coded spyware!
So if amd and intel are both switching to DRM, and apple is switching to intel, does cyrix still make cpus? Who can we turn to that doesn't use DRM?

I think that it would be very productive for some OEMs to start advertising pre-DRM systems as "Fastest cpu that doesn't have built in spyware" and otherwise touting the absence. If lack of DRM is widely advertised as a feature, then sales of non-drm parts may provide enough market incentive to fight back the evil horde. Otherwise, what is the fastest non-drm cpu? If I can't get anything without drm two years from now then I may never go beyond the BP6 with dual celeron. Seriosly, if any of you sell a computer on ebay or something, be sure to mention lack of DRM as a selling point in your listing. Most people are too poorly informed to realize that the DRM "feature" is a value subtracting feature rather than value adding, but if you spell it out for them I think a lot of people would either get it or pretend to.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Intel and AMD are too late to this game... They've had 1GHZ systems for a few years now and people aren't really upgrading anymore (the people who use bittorrent a lot). Yes computer sales are kinda the same but there are still a lot of people out there with systems with windows 98 who probably don't even have DRM software on their machines.

This DRM crap is stupid and I hate it, its just a part of the TCPA thing. If we get enough people to be informed about DRM and TCPA, maybe either people will stop buying machines because they realize what machine they have is fine or the industry will stop this bull shiet.

 

[imported_Kensai]

M2, here we come!