Comment by tomjen3

That would amount to saying that we in Europe can't use any technology that is less than what 20 years old?

You can't even replace an Intel CPU with an AMD one unless your motherboard supports both. Good luck finding a modern laptop with a socketed CPU.

I get where you are coming from, and it would be nice not to be locked down to one vendor, but the cost to enable that is so high as to be not worth it.

I would rather the manufactures have to state their support up front and then you know what you buy when you buy it.