Warranty!!?!?!?!?!

[Carruth, Rusty]

Well, the list for the one I got is about $2100, has a 128G SSD (M.2) and a 1T Rotator.

You might want to look in to system 76. They make laptops with Ubuntu installed – I could have had one with 512G SSD, 2T Rotator, 16G RAM, high-speed WiFI, and some other stuff I forget for about $1480.  But it was ‘only’ 1080p, not 4k…

Rusty

From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Partington
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 1:23 PM
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Subject: Re: Warranty!!?!?!?!?!

I would look into one of the models that have the SSD+HDD combinations already (i have seen the 32GB SSD for OS or caching) and use that. But i am looking for something very similar to that (alienware 17 is looking the most promising) however as i can order it with a spinning drive and add a pair of m.2 ssds later.

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com<mailto:herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com>> wrote:
That is weird since Dell sells Linux laptops http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop_us

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:37 AM, irb <irb_plug-d at maleficarum.org<mailto:irb_plug-d at maleficarum.org>> wrote:
* Carruth, Rusty (aka Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com<mailto:Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com>) used 15K on Tue, 05 Sep 2017 at 17:21 +0000 to say:
>
> (By the way – does anyone remember the ‘windows refund day’ many years back?
> System vendors refused to honor the refund clause stated in the EULA (or
> whatever it was), claiming that Microsoft had to honor it, and Micro$oft
> claimed that it was the responsibility of the system vendors (which, indeed,
> it was).  But as far as I know, NOBODY got their refund….  Again, where’s
> the lawyers????)

I remember that, as part of BALUG many years ago. I never got a refund and
Microsoft tried to turn it to their advantage by setting up a booth. I think
there's a documentary out there somewhere.

When dealing with warranty crap from laptop vendors I just take an image of
the drive. If I have to send it in I don't include the drive anyway, and I've
never been given grief over it. Still, having an original hardware backup
like that is kinda cool.

/i.
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