I would take this article with a grain of salt. There is no separation between home pc and workplace pc. I would venture that the vast majority of of those WIN7 machines are within companies that are slow to adopt WIN10. How do I know this? Because I work in one of those companies with 50k...
I think you fail to grasp the purpose of net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.
Your wish will be granted now that net neutrality has been abolished in the US. Now you'll get to pick and pay for each streaming service. There will be a Facebook channel, a Youtube channel, an Instagram channel and so on. ;)
Go home you're drunk.
What loss are you referring too? If it's performance there is plenty of evidence on the web showing negligible loss in performance for home users type workloads.
My thoughts exactly. Hard to believe they did this. Perhaps Team red is rubbing off on them.
Correct not delided. From what I've seen temps are usually around the 90s on older batches of non delided 8700k. I can't truly say if intel has changed the TIM or not but at least I can say mine is running much cooler. I'm using corsair 150i pro in a push only config. Maybe I got lucky.
I've got a brand new 8700k @ 5Ghz (batch L804ED455) and the hottest temp I get on full load is around low 60's. I did not delid my CPU nor experienced any temp fluctuations. I can only speculate that Intel has changed their manufacturing process to address the issue with temps on this CPU.
What overclocking headroom? This chip just hit the market today so you don't have that information to make that statement. Don't be surprise if the 8086 can't hit much past 5Ghz.
Physical media has gone the way of the dodo. I doubt any of the new cases coming to market will ever again support an optical drive option. You're only viable option is external drives.
Considering the 460x has a non-RGB option, I would speculate the 260x may have a non-RGB variant. I recently build a new pc with the non-RGB 460x for this very reason. RGB ecosystem is a hot mess!! Corsair has the nicest RGB fans on the market, their LL Series, but they're not compatible with...
Facial recognition is already being used in your country.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/6-major-us-airports-now-scan-americans-faces-when-they-leave-country/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/27/us-facial-recognition-database-fbi-drivers-licenses-passports
If you're still on older OS like Win 7 & 8 because you're worried about Windows 10 telemetry, sorry to burst your bubble. MS has roll-ed out telemetry patches to Win 7 & 8, so it's not just Win 10. If you're so worried about some large corporation gathering data about your computer, you should...