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  • It will increase the revenue of their business products.
    Consider this from a business point of view. New purchases will likely have a support clause that says they will only give support if their verified drives are installed. When someone makes a support request and another vendors drive is there, they can close the support case until you buy their drives and reproduce the problem.

    This is very common in enterprise equipment. Not using a Cisco SFP and your Cisco switch isn’t booting? No support is given until the SFP is removed or replaced with a Cisco branded unit at an outrageous markup.









  • Did the laptop have any kind of mobile device management on it? If so you will have to perform an offline install of windows otherwise the laptop will call home when installing to get security policies.

    I would enable bitlocker on the drive to encrypt what is current there then do a secure erase just be 100% sure any leftover data is inaccessible.

    I am also going to be that guy and say why run win8? A Linux distro with Proton will likely perform better and still receive security updates. Unless you are doing competitive ranked games.