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Aren't easily identified? When listings on pricewatch and other search engines mention toledo, manchester, etc you don't think the buying public isn't aware what they are getting?

Are you saying that the pricewatch crowd are a niche and don't count?

Or do you think some joe schmoe is going to hit CTRL-Shift-ESC and wonder why he has 3 CPU graphs insted of 4?

Surely you don't expect them to pry the heat spreader off and count the number of dies and then compare vs the number it reports on bootup.

If they don't know the difference between Toledo and Manchester they won't know the difference between 3 active cores and 4 active cores. Sure they might know the difference between the part name but they won't think its deffective because they will assume it is a completely different part until somone tells them otherwise.

Joe schmoe still thinks the faster processors are a different part than the slower ones. They don't know about binning in any shape or form.