Is it legal to buy a laptop with a BIOS lock?

I'm tech-savvy and would be willing to buy lockable notebooks to remove the locks and broaden my technical horizon.

Since I find this unusually cheap, I was a bit puzzled.

How can the origin of these laptops be clarified?

I need your help. LG

As long as they are not stolen, everything is fine

There's a reason that they are cheap.

And what to do with it, the BIOS password has to be out. To remove the password, the Bios battery has to be removed.

This is very, very difficult with most laptops.

Well If the device is stolen and is offered at a correspondingly low price, you may be liable to prosecute stolen goods.

With such offers, it is relatively easy to conclude that the devices are not being sold quite legally.

Bios battery out would still work, but that doesn't always lead to success. With Thinkpad, for example, that didn't work out 15 years ago.

Generally yes, the problem with this is that the non-existent password in connection with a literally suspiciously low price indicate that it is stolen goods.

there's such a thing as acquisition in good faith. I.e. It is not a criminal offense to acquire goods that you do not know that they have been stolen. But it MAY also be that if you can be proven that you could know that the goods you bought were stolen, you too will be charged with stolen goods.

there's also the risk that if the device turns out to be stolen and can be traced back to you, you will be obliged to hand it in.

If you have invested in the device by then, e.g. A new hard drive installed, this is also gone, i.e. You have to hand it in with it.

I wouldn't want to take the risk if I were you.