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On 03/22/2010 10:33 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> On 3/22/2010 3:40 PM, Mick wrote: |
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>> On Monday 22 March 2010 19:21:26 KH wrote: |
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>>> Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: |
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>>>> TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax |
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>>>> on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular |
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>>>> laptop. |
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>>> |
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>>> You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you are |
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>>> lucky, the vendor will give you some money back. |
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>> |
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>> Getting money back from Dell?!! It'll be like squeezing blood out of a |
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>> stone. ;-) |
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>> Seriously though, I've asked them to take it off for me and they said that |
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>> this is "not an option"! |
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> |
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> Particularly annoying is the fact that Dell claims to be "Linux |
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> friendly". Which is apparently shorthand for: |
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> "Sure, we'll happily sell you one of three crappy laptop models with |
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> Ubuntu pre-installed, at a slight discount, while bombarding you with |
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> 'Dell Recommends Windows' ads while you shop. What's that? You want a |
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> desktop machine with Linux? Are you insane?" |
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Dell mainly sells "Windows Computers", not "Computers". If someone |
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doesn't like that, why buy one? There's a gazillion of e-shops selling |
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custom machines. |
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