The key differences are probably the "dangerous situation" and the "class action". Probably no one is going to die if they can't resell their CPU or install Lin

The key differences are probably the "dangerous situation" and the "class action". Probably no one is going to die if they can't resell their CPU or install Linux on their laptop. And regardless, for a class action suit there'd have to be a class, and as usual the vast majority of people buying Lenovo are not aware of this, wouldn't care if they did, or actually consider it a feature; this article is about some Lenovo machines that I think are sold primarily to businesses who would probably like it if the machine couldn't have end users overwrite the OS or fiddle with the hardware.