Re: might be off topic

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Roger Heflin  said:
> I would be surprised if any of the laptop vendors did that.   There is
> no profit motive for them to prevent other chipsets from working and
> it takes extra code.

It's definitely something some have done, probably to "limit support
costs" (or really, limit customer choices in replacement parts to
marked-up vendor hardware).  I know for example that Thinkpads at one
point would only activate Thinkpad wifi cards, based on PCI ID (not sure
if they still do this).