[Novalug] Laptop question again.

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Subba Rao wrote:

> Thank you to everyone who replied.  I am still (sort of) surprised that 
> there are no CDs to reinstall M$ Windows.  The salesman said it is to beat 
> piracy.  If you create a backup copy of the image, how will that help 
> beating piracy?

Think of it as a maturing of the computer industry.

When humans bought furniture in the past, a craftsman built it from scratch 
and the final piece was delivered complete.

Now we can still buy that way, but more often than not we're happy buying a 
box of parts at Ikea and putting it together ourselves.  As long as the 
finished product is satisfying to us, the price is what we want to pay, etc., 
Ikea (and others) has effectively moved a considerable amount of the labor 
cost of furniture manufacturing to the buyer instead of the seller.  
Brilliant!

So if computer manufacturers decide not to provide cdrom discs that 80% of 
their customers lose or throw in a drawer and never use anyways, is that bad?

What counts is that the partition for recovery is there and that you CAN make 
backup discs if you choose to do so.  For me, that's a great idea.  It makes 
reinstalling Windows easier than looking for discs in storage and only costs 
me a few megabytes of a 100+ HD...

> I am still leaning towards HP laptops.  They seem to be the only ones with 
> good price/value for a dual HD laptop.

I love my HP ZT 3000 :) (3 years old and counting)
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Maxwell Spangler
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