Re: Will no one think of the printers?
the attitude of "you'll use ONLY our ink and we've chipped the cartriďges to make damn sure" comes under just this heading
Agree, one of the issues/fun-and-games with Thinkpads is that practically everything is chipped and contains a product id. If the Bios doesn't see the right id being returned from the LCD, battery, HDD, keyboard etc. it will raise an error and often fail to boot.
So yes I can buy a standard replacement LCD panel from a wide range of third-party vendors, but for it to work, I need the variant that has the IBM/Lenovo product id., for which there is typically a price premium.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
