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Snapdragon X Elite Reviews are Out: Solid Performance and Great Battery Life | Beebom (beebom.com)
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[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

BIOS locked to Windows keys. Tuxedo is promising a Linux version of the same SOC soon, though.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Can we please make vendor-locked bootloaders illegal, for repairability and consumer choice and all that? There's literally no reason for it, except to lock in customers.

[–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

If history is any indication then more lock-in will be the future trend. And they will sugarcoat it with reasons such as "this is more secure".