Tecra S11 bios update 2.20

Hi I was wondering, why Toshiba does not say what's new in bios updates? It's the third one already and no info about it. I'm not even sure whether it's a good idea to update. Can anyone share some info about this?

you might have better luck asking over at the european forum. since we dont have the model here there isnt much info we can give on the updates. the US updates are much different than the way toshiba europe does them. here is the european forum. http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/index.jspa maybe someone over there will have already checked on the info you need.
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