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Yeah, I assumed so, really dislike that you can't do what you want with hardware you own.
Edit: apparently not locked down, which is great
Their source is they made it the fuck up. The most recent devices from previous generations running Windows on ARM weren't boot locked. Only the surface RT was boot locked.