Re: The need to reinstall applications

95% of software will work fine
but some apps (high end stuff, usually) won't
as they record hashes of your hardware and send them to the company to prevent piracy
different hash = different hardware = pirate copy = cripple software

I'm talking about things like CAD packages, 3D modelling, proprietary server apps, that sort of thing
it's probably not an issue at all, but just thought I'd mention it