Warranty!!?!?!?!?!

[Michael]

system76 is expensive too

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Phil Waclawski <phil.waclawski at mesacc.edu>
wrote:

> 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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