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I don't think this will make a huge difference.
PC's are well past being commodities, and are now less than 20% of the market. Most of those machines are going to businesses and schools, who have absolutely no need for socketed CPU's.
Hobbyists won't be terribly inconvenienced, because most of the time they will upgrade the mobo and RAM at the same time they upgrade the CPU, e.g. to take advantage of a new bus or new type of RAM.
This is only going to affect a very small number of users, namely a handful gamers who actually swap out the CPU, and nothing but the CPU, every 3-6 months.
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