Posts by io_burn

Quote: Originally posted by JeffL Actually from a security standpoint it is a good idea to have it in place. If the BIOS supported biometric power on passwords it would make it much hardware to crack the password,...

It's not really a matter of needing one, it's more of a it would be really neat if it did have one

Quote: Originally posted by Crowman42 The square that you are refering to is a space in which you can put a biometric fingerprint reader. As of right now, the technology is not available in notebook computers as of yet....

I was at a LAN party where a buddy of mine brought an older Micron laptop from his office which had the finger print reader built in. He somehow had his OS configured so you don't log on with the standard login, you just press your...