Windoze refund (was: RE: [wplug] Laptop Criteria)

[Steve Kudlak]

SOunds pretty impressive. I dunno if Dell with all
their commercials will build a good Linux system
for someone who asks for it. It would be cute to answer
that cute commercial with the tag line of: "Hi this is Dell
what can we build for you today?" by having someone
answer "A Linux system for publication and graphics".
I will leave out the part about "Somthing my printer
(you know the humans that help  your publish on a large
scale) will believe in.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve

"Vanco, Donald" wrote:

> John Harrold wrote:
> > Sometime in May Vanco, Donald assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> >
> >> John Harrold wrote:
> >>>> Sometime in April Vanco, Donald assaulted the keyboard and
> >>>>    produced: My current laptop was a real compromise - only one
> >>>> PCMCIA (I routinely need 2), no floppy, no serial, but @$$ kicking
> >>>> graphics & display, a 2.4GHz P4 and a boatload of RAM for $1300
> >>>> and my WinXP refund from Dell.
> >>
> >>> how hard was it to get the refund and how much did you get?
> >> See:
> >> http://tinyurl.com/aqrp
> >>      ...plus an additional $50 here http://tinyurl.com/aqrv
> >
> > so you got ~150.00, color me impressed.
>
>         I was pretty happy, but then read the sobering comments by the site
> admin.  He makes some valid points - a small victory for me, but overall the
> result really doesn't do anything for the "equality fight" with OEMs.  I
> figure Dell is just giving the $100 refunds to shut folks up - I suppose in
> a perfect world they'd get annoyed by it and at least offer a "No OS" option
> on home systems, but I'm sure their agreement with Microsoft won't allow
> that to happen easily.
>         Equally amazed by the number of folks clamoring to buy the virus on
> eBay - I saw similar copies go for >$70 - I was frankly surprised that mine
> closed so low.  Still, 150 shekels is a lot of wings @ Hooters.
>         ....and yes - I really did nuke the install of WindozeXP that came
> on the laptop.  It's been running Gentoo (and nothing but) since the second
> time I booted it.
>
> Don
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