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by tmp26 12y ago
The Dell one is nice. Are you sure the X1 comes with linux though? It looks like the only choices are W7 & W8
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by tmp26 12y ago
The problem is not "few options", the problem is "few GOOD options". With Apple laptops, there is limited choice sure, but the choices are all pretty darn good. With Linux preinstalled laptops, they are entirely uninspir
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by tmp26 12y ago
This might have just been rumor, but I've heard tell of devices with fake CE stickers.
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by tmp26 12y ago
Supposedly select parts are coming back, as big companies lose faith. (But not all of it will come back)
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by tmp26 12y ago
Price competition is great! The shady thing about the imitations is trying to insert themselves into someone else's supply & support chain, IMO. Which is probably tied to the reason they didn't implement the ACM spec- from my
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by tmp26 12y ago
Honestly? I rotate accounts on most major sites periodically. It is a tinfoil-hat foible, a way to distance myself from the exceedingly dumb things I have almost certainly said in years past. Unfortunately for me, I chose today to rotate. I
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by tmp26 12y ago
According to the thread the VID is RO?
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by tmp26 12y ago
Most HN'ers seem to agree it is OK for FTDI to prevent their own drivers from working with the fakes, right? The fact that there are no OTHER drivers that are compatible (no matter what the pid is) with the fakes isn't their probl
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by tmp26 12y ago
I don't think so. There was at least one guy in the thread who reprogrammed the PID back, and the chip worked with the old FTDI drivers again, which means the USB interface was working just fine (or else how could he access it to chang
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by tmp26 12y ago
Right, I forgot, anyone who isn't part of the lynch mob is a shill. I rarely eat breakfast in the first place, sadly.
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by tmp26 12y ago
"bricking" doesn't seem to be the right word. FTDI is making it so that the counterfeit chips don't work with any FTDI drivers, old or new. (Per the thread, all that happens is the PID is changed to a PID that no FTDI dr
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by tmp26 12y ago
What is the HN crowd's preferred way of dealing with that kind of parasite?