On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 09:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> Company policy or the opinion of clueless Saturday staff?
Probably policy - the sales person I spoke to went away to ask a
colleague (without being asked to do so). He actually recommended trying
PC World!
Dianne
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On 24 May 2010 09:39, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 24 May 2010 09:37, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > Out of curiosity I went into Currys Digital on Saturday - they too are
> > only selling Windows 7 machines and say installing another OS would
> > invalidate the hardware guarantee.
> >
>
I don't know much ab
On 24 May 2010 09:37, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Out of curiosity I went into Currys Digital on Saturday - they too are
> only selling Windows 7 machines and say installing another OS would
> invalidate the hardware guarantee.
>
Company policy or the opinion of clueless Saturday staff?
Cheers,
Al.
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Out of curiosity I went into Currys Digital on Saturday - they too are
only selling Windows 7 machines and say installing another OS would
invalidate the hardware guarantee.
I'm sure that my paranoia about MS sales methods is getting out of hand,
but I can't help wondering.
Dianne
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On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:50:00 Nigel Verity wrote:
> Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any OS other than Windows
> will invalidate the hardware guarantee.
I've run Ubuntu on Dell since 5.04. I've called for support 5 times across 5
laptops - once for a bad fan, and 4 times for d
Oops, sent early
There wouldn't be any legal issues as all that Dell can do is refuse to
support your machine in that configuration. In the event of a return to base
repair, it might return with a factory build of Windows on it, or, if
necessary, do it yourself before it goes back.
s/
On 22 May
It really means that Dell aren't willing to support Linux on their hardware,
which suggests that their experiment of the last two or three years might
have come to an end
On 22 May 2010 12:50, "Nigel Verity" wrote:
Hi
Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any OS other than Windows
w
Hi
Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any OS other than Windows will
invalidate the hardware guarantee.
While this might be Dell's opening gambit, I can't see they would pursue it all
the way to court. The cost of demonstrating that a particular feature of an OS
puts an inordina
