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Originally posted by Calum:
this is fine in theory, and so on, but once you give them your credit card details and they charge you for 1x laptop and 1x shitty operating system, then it's you who is being fucked around trying to get your money back. By even booting the machine into windows you are agreeing to the EULA. And to know this, you must boot into windows so you can read the EULA, am i right?
so do explain implicitly to them on the phone that fobbing you off with windows will do nobody any good, but DO NOT give them a chance to charge you for m$windows, that's my advice.
Ding - you squared that nail right up...and I'm blowed if you did not go and hit it smack straight where it needed to go.
My G/F me, told me I'm just doing this for the Drama, and a principle, and I said damn right I am.
Void, I never gave you shit, I actually thought you might have built a laptop - well never said I was the brightest lamp.
Muffin - Thanks for the Links. Trouble is two fold. I was burnt last time when the Manufacturer went Belly up a month after I brought the machine. Left me high and dry with no official copies of the software I had installed. I lost my warranty, which would have been useful for my MOBO went 11 months in. And I don't have a CC, I hate them, cash/cheque and out the door is my prefered method, that's why I'm very careful, but thanks for the BBB link, I may get a charge card though.
I want to know more about the freedos thing. Is it a M$ operating system, and is it free? I don't care if it will just bring up a shell, and does not support any of the hardware, when I get it it's getting RH, or somesuch.
[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
Edit : Arrgghhh. FreeDOS is not M$ so I don't think I can ask for this. Anyone know different?
[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]