[mrguyorama]

Also basically the way high cost digital lab equipment works. The high-spec and low-spec versions are identical, but the low spec ones have features turned off, using methods from easily by-passable resistors to cryptographic keys stored in a bit of flash

[nicolashahn]

Has a market been made for people buying low-spec, modifying to be the same as high-spec, and selling for lower than retail high-spec price?

[westmeal]

Huh never knew that. Pretty interesting.