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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pugnate on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 07:51:27 AM

Title: Bios is finally obsolete.
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 07:51:27 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069

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Post by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 07:57:43 AM

Will this also mean the end of those ridiculous batteries on motherboards?  How long has flash RAM been dirt-cheap now?

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Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 08:56:07 AM

haha yea I've had to do a crazy bios reboot by messing with those batteries once or twice on older systems.

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Post by: idolminds on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 09:19:17 AM

Huh, thats pretty wild.

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Post by: Xessive on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 10:48:07 AM

Awesome news! It is about time, really :D

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Post by: ren on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 11:17:42 AM

Interesting. This is a section of computing that I've never given any thought before.

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Post by: MysterD on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 11:21:24 AM

Very interesting.