Huh? There are IBM laptops with dedicated crypto chips? Although I don't claim to be any kind of an expert, I think this has to be wrong. Anyone know any different? well, certainly some thinkpads have encryption of the hard drive; if you take the hard drive out and try to read it on another system, you find
Tyler Durden wrote: the drive contains garbage - if and only if you have a bios and startup password set. the same password is used for both startup access and drive encryption. I suspect it is more that they are looking for a reason to block this sale, and this is the first one they thought of. exactly why they would like to do this is beyond me - possibly MS would like IBM to still be tied to them by Windows contracts, or possibly just someone in government doesn't like the idea of "THE IBM PC" being a chinese company.