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[removed] - The original headline or comments I read as Amazon locks bios of Acer laptops sold through Amazon. Clearly incorrect!
by slownews45 5y ago
[removed] - The original headline or comments I read as Amazon locks bios of Acer laptops sold through Amazon. Clearly incorrect!
- detaro 5y ago> The idea that Amazon would even spend the time specially configuring a laptop to lock the boot order? That's not what's claimed?
- llacb47 5y agoRead the review again.
- javajosh 5y agoFour problems with your post: First, Acer (the manufacturer) is doing it, not Amazon. Second, it does appear to be systematic. Third, refund policy is irrelevant and implies (falsely) that the issue is simply a consumer choice problem. Fourth, you ignore what is troubling: it represents the loss of general purpose computing devices as a product category, even in that last bastion of "freedom", the personal computer. Acer is a major manufacturer, and this shift is ominous.