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BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops

Posted by timothy on from the to-benefit-the-consumer dept.

derek_farn writes "First there were printers that would would only work with vendor annointed ink cartridges; now we have laptops that will only boot with vendor annointed PCI cards. Keeping a list of approved PCI cards in the bios is one way of ensuring that customers renew their maintenance contracts. How else are they going to be able to plug in a PCI card released after the last BIOS update?" My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this?

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  1. Confirm? by sczimme · · Score: 5, Funny


    My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this?

    How should we know? It's your laptop.

    :-)

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  2. confirmation of laptop age by hymie3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this?

    Yeah, Timothy. I was there with you when you bought your laptop. It was around the same time that I got my iPod. It was a first generation, so, yeah, your laptop is definitely a few years old.

    You're welcome. =)

  3. The correct answer is.... by TiggertheMad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your laptop is downloading pr0n and warez from the internet, and is unresponsive when you try to get it to do something useful. I'd put it's age at about 14.

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