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>BIOS passwords are a little more secure than that
The hell they are. It's a matter of thirty seconds' work to pop open the case and move/remove the CMOS reset jumper, et voilá - no more boot/setup password. You'd have to padlock the case to prevent that. Laptops are much more secure in that respect because they rarely have a reset jumper or similar (because they are much more attractive targets for thieves, and often the only way to clear passwords on a laptop is to send it back to the factory).