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Originally Posted by altis
...and besides, don't you still invalidate the warranty on some PCs by opening them?
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Good point. I think it's commercial though - the PC manufacturer wants you to buy "authorised" (read "pricey") components. Years ago I had a AST 486 PC and it was fine for me to install more memory, just so long as I bought it from AST, which I did.
It would be an issue only in new PCs still within their warranty, and it seems that many now come with Ethernet capabilities either as standard or as a user choice - modem or Ethernet.