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The Dell one is nice. Are you sure the X1 comes with linux though? It looks like the only choices are W7 & W8

The problem is not "few options", the problem is "few GOOD options". With Apple laptops, there is limited choice sure, but the choices are all pretty darn good. With Linux preinsta…

This might have just been rumor, but I've heard tell of devices with fake CE stickers.

Supposedly select parts are coming back, as big companies lose faith. (But not all of it will come back)

Price competition is great! The shady thing about the imitations is trying to insert themselves into someone else's supply & support chain, IMO. Which is probably tied to the reaso…

Honestly? I rotate accounts on most major sites periodically. It is a tinfoil-hat foible, a way to distance myself from the exceedingly dumb things I have almost certainly said in …

According to the thread the VID is RO?

Most HN'ers seem to agree it is OK for FTDI to prevent their own drivers from working with the fakes, right? The fact that there are no OTHER drivers that are compatible (no matter…

I don't think so. There was at least one guy in the thread who reprogrammed the PID back, and the chip worked with the old FTDI drivers again, which means the USB interface was wor…

Right, I forgot, anyone who isn't part of the lynch mob is a shill. I rarely eat breakfast in the first place, sadly.

"bricking" doesn't seem to be the right word. FTDI is making it so that the counterfeit chips don't work with any FTDI drivers, old or new. (Per the thread, all that happens is the…

What is the HN crowd's preferred way of dealing with that kind of parasite?