The interesting question for me is how long you will be able to do that. I can imagine a future where the &quot;application only&quot; laptops have hard crypto that prevents anyone from tampering with the OS. And the OS only allows installs from the &quot;App Store&quot; (generic). Think IOS meets Macbook meets UEFI++.<p>That will be the &quot;sweet spot&quot; for people who just use laptops as tools and are tired of being afraid of being hacked all the time. That will be the only kind of laptop many business people can get.<p>Because of that the marginal cost to make a laptop that can have some other OS loaded on to it will go up, and probably go up dramatically. I think it is fortunate that for now a laptop can last 5 years easily as its easier to shell out 3 - 5K for a laptop if you&#x27;ll have it for 5 years than it is for something that won&#x27;t.