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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by iratewizard on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:10PM (#29958864)
My first thought was, is it really a big deal to do that to your laptop's cpu? Then I saw that they're doing this to desktops. My next thought was, people buy pre-built desktops still?

Still really concerning to see Lenovo make boneheaded moves like this when they've had one of the better track records for manufacturers.

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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by seized on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:15PM (#29958920)
Maybe not the worst track record but they have made other terrible choices...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish

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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by vetinari on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:23PM (#29959014)
> My next thought was, people buy pre-built desktops still?

If you are enthusiast and need a one or two desktops, then probably not. If you need to procure several hundred of them every few months, then probably yes.

What this definitely will do is to affect the market price of these desktops once the lease (or depreciation time) runs out and owner will try to unload them on second hand market.

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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by mjrpes on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:51PM (#29959874)
How does this affect the 2nd hand market? Will the buyer not be able to use the desktop?
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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by vetinari on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:55PM (#29959923)
Cannot be bought as s source of spare parts, that you might use in different computers. At least not CPUs.
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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by overtonwhy on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:42PM (#29959204)
Most people buy pre built desktops. Partly because it's the only way to get a high end video card.
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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by pram on Sunday January 16, 2022 @08:26PM (#29962357)
You think businesses have some computer janitor working for them that puts together heckin epic artisanal gaming rigs? lol
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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by kube-system on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:11PM (#29959477)
Businesses almost exclusively purchase prebuilt computers.
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