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Pugnate
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Bios is finally obsolete.
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 07:51:27 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069
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Cobra951
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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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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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Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 09:19:17 AM »
Huh, thats pretty wild.
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Xessive
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 10:48:07 AM »
Awesome news! It is about time, really
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ren
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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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Very interesting.
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