Warranty!!?!?!?!?!

[Phil Waclawski]

I have a laptop from zareason that I've used for several years. It was a
touch pricey, but still powerful enough to do a lot. They also will install
different flavors of linux for you.

Phil Waclawski

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> Rusty,
>
> Did you check out System 76 laptops? They come with Ubuntu installed, but
> I think you can ask for any distro. I have been using their hardware for a
> couple of years, and it is flawless.
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>
>> I just went through this with a new dell, where I used the local windoze
>> tools to make a usb backup imagine with their software to a 16gb drive, and
>> just tossed it in a drawer if I ever need to restore things.  That
>> supposedly restores their recovery partitions and windoze itself, which
>> should be everything...
>>
>> I'd not put faith in some tier 1 rep telling you linux voids the
>> warranty.  It was probably one of those "What is linux?  Yeah, don't do
>> that." sort of comments ignorant agents might spew, but otherwise shouldn't
>> matter.  If you restore the disk and bios to prior function, they should be
>> none the wiser anyways.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:37 AM, irb <irb_plug-d at maleficarum.org> wrote:
>>
>>> * Carruth, Rusty (aka 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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