Yes, you are giving them a pass, and that is not even the entire picture. They don't just own the roads, but the regulations that determine the very manufacture, maintenance, and use of the vehicles themselves. This was an apt example to defeat your argument.
They own the roads so they can decide what vehicles can use them and how these vehicles can be used on them... how is this difficult to understand?
In the same way Nintendo owns it's services so they can decide what devices can be used and how, the same way they own the hardware they sell, the same way Apple owns the hardware it sells, they just lease you the use of the hardware and enforce their rights via software while the government does it via officers.
This is the same faulty reasoning that people use to say a toddler rules your life, not the other way around. The unspoken option is you can drop the kid off at a fire house even if that were the case, and its not.
Actually yes it is generally considered true that if you father a child you lose the freedom to not care for it. And a woman that becomes pregnant loses the for 9 months until birth all kinds of physical freedoms. so on and so forth. The difference is the child does not choose for this to happen. Now we can go back to doing things as the ancients did and just throw them on the rocks if we don't find them perfect enough but that's another discussion.
Whatever compels you to do something you would not otherwise have done... is exercising ownership over you. Simple.
High end this or that, versus, low end this or that has no meaning because the understanding of what that means is highly subjective. This is not sophistry. If you and another person cannot come to an agreement on the meaning of the words they are using to talk about something, no conversation can be had. You are the one saying that there used to be some implied social understanding of multiple "tiers" of parts and that there are so many of them now that its confusing. If you are referring to cost, then give a range, if you are referring to capability then define the performance parameters so we can actually talk about what you mean to say. I find it bizarre that you believe there is an idea of 'low end' or 'high end' tiers of parts coupled with some factual understanding of when it is or is not low or high end.
You seem to be a wealthy individual that has never even had to consider this.... or you are doing this on purpose because it hardly takes any effort to simply apply high, mid and low as they have even commonly been presented by manufacturers.
Turbo boost is not some experimental feature and it has nearly a 100% uptime on all CPUs made by Intel since sandy bridge when doing some amount of work.These clock boosting features are also anything but minor when it comes to the amount of performance they net you when used. Turbo boost can give you 30-40% more clock speed depending on the chip in question.
Otherwise understood by the consumer as the CPU runs at half to two thirds speed and boosts to full speed as required.
XMP is a static profile just like how JEDEC standards are a profile.
Static overclock profile compared to stock profile......
Put simply, PBO is an enhanced turbo boosting feature for AMD CPUs. The only reason it has to be turned on is because the amount of kinds of changes you can do with it and lots of them fall outside the scope of the original warranty for the CPU. Anything that increases clock speed above the base advertized clock speed of a CPU is an overclock by definition.
You contradict yourself. All overclocks are by definition outside of the warrenty for CPU's unless otherwise specified.... including PBO as has recently been highlighted.
You are telling me that no consumer that did not overclock had any issues in the past with their hardware? Only the people who OCed had any sort of hardware issue? Those are some of the most easy to prove false claims I have ever read.
If you mean by hardware issues hardware that ceases to function.... yes, only OC has predominantly caused that except with motherboards that you always have to watch for failure.
For instance, the recent 13/14th generation Intel CPUs were clocked too high as a baseline and cause rapid silicon degradation. This is a design flaw of the 13th/14th CPUs while run completely stock with intel guidelines. All consumers had issues with various PC parts in the past, not just OCers.
This is an example of factory OC.... that the users did not know about.
To the average consumer, no, there is no meaningful difference between SATA and NVMe M.2 drives and you proved it. They both install into the same slot in the same exact manner. The only difference beyond that is performative, which no consumer is going to be able to tell the difference between said drive unless staring at synthetic benchmarks.
Except that one is slower than the other and most of the time turns off other parts of the motherboard.... the other one potentially slows down your PCI'e speed.
I am using your made up terminology in an effort to effectuate the discussion. Every time I used the phrase it was in '' to signify that it is a so-called term with no commonly understood meaning in the context that it is being used. When I used it I completely defined my usage of the phrase, unlike yourself. I defined it as, "people with little to no experience [building PCs]."
Not how I used it at all.... let me rephrase. You get the minority of high end consumers that do niche things like purposeful OC and SLI and are likely to run non-consumer hardware.... then there is everyone else. Only the minority has the knowledge and wealth necesary to do this. As in your anecdotal evidence below you entered this minority many years ago.... or were born into it.
I will just underline the factual inaccuracies in the above. My reservoir for fighting against your inexperience or ignorance, and gross mischaracterizations is nearing empty.
Oh dear me.... how ever will I cope.
I used to be common Joe. The first computer I build I had no idea what I was doing and only had a budget. I went to Microcenter Tustin. I picked up the following PC parts in about 3-4 hours. I got home and built it with the context of the paper manuals that came with the parts in about 4-5 hours. The exact same thing can be replicated today. In fact, my nephew just did the same for himself last weekend at microcenter. He had never done anything like that before. I am speaking from experience as a used to be common Joe and speaking of my nephews recent example of doing the same exact thing. If one has a pulse, a will, and a budget they can build a computer by themselves with very little help or research, just as it has always been.
You are overcomplicating things too much
No I think things through and when I buy I do so with the intent to only re-buy if something ceases to function or becomes obsolete. I don't want to be caught in some random trap where I wasted money on the wrong random thing.
And I have too many times see people make stupid mistakes because of their ignorance or haste.... that I have had to fix or explain how the only way to fix it is to spend money... that they don't actually have available to spend.
Sure you can blindly buy whatever is available.... but there is much more to get wrong. It's not as safe anymore to just vaguely slap together things that seem like they look nice together... unless you are willing to swap parts in and out as time goes along until all the niggles have been worked out. Or perpetually keep upgrading because your choices obsolete more often than they should.
I never understood the impulse some people have to upgrade their GPU or CPU every year or 2nd year.... and now it's RAM that it gets done with too.
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