As much as I'm impressed with Sandy Bridge, I have a hard time explaining to myself why I should pay extra to Intel NOT to disable features like HyperThreading, AES-NI, Turbo multipliers, or whatever else these things have. The P67/H67 issue notwithstanding. Hyperthreading alone accounts for 100EURs price difference, are you kidding me? It cost them more to turn that feature off than to include it in the first place.
Which is why I'm very glad when I saw this (BTW this article has 3 pages):
http://semiaccurate.com/2011/03/15/inte ... o-servers/
It seems Atom CPUs have had the capability to do VT-x from the very start. And the ability to use more than 2GBs of RAM. And if Intel had its way, all Atoms wouldn't have had PCI Express support. A shameless money grab, if you ask me. But other people, like AMD, realized that Intel's artificial segmentation left a whole market down to them (and ARM).
Count me as an educated consumer - everybody else may have forgotten the way Intel shafted the X-25 early adopters with the TRIM fiasco, or back when they made VT-x a "high end feature" with Core 2 until Microsoft stepped in, but I haven't. It's good to see Intel get its own medicine shoved down its throat.