We are not in the desktop world with this discussion, which is why I said:QWERTY Andreas wrote:
It is based on the fact that windows OEM keys are locked to the motherboard.
The absolute worst that can happen - and that's presuming one is running a retail or volume version of the OS in question - is that a call to Microsoft would be required in order to re-activate the OS. If the OS was installed from factory media there will be no issue. Period.What kind of empirical ThinkPad-related data are you basing these statements on?
Which hardware changes? While I don't disagree with your statement in principle, all that one needs to do when going from nVidia to Intel - which was the original scenario in this thread - is to:And that newer versions of windows is better at handling hardwarechanges.
a) Uninstall all nVidia-related software.
b) Install the proper driver for Intel integrated graphics.
That's IT. And this is coming from someone who has swapped hundreds - if not thousands - planars on ThinkPads over the past decade.