Re: AMD64-based laptops from HP/Compaq are crippled

From: Jim (james_at_the-computer-shop.co.uk)
Date: 08/15/05

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    Andrew Gabriel wrote:
    > In article <trhvf1hh0mrnjad4p6r3rhhbv97bltaen6@4ax.com>,
    > Marek Williams <abc@example.com> writes:
    >
    >>And as for the laptops sans Windows, I tried everything to get a
    >>laptop from HP without Windows before buying the R4000. HP insists
    >>there is no such thing as a laptop without Windows. I tried the
    >>corporate department and every other department. I think they might
    >>have offered a laptop without Windows once, but as far as I know that
    >>option is history.
    >
    >
    > We bought some ~20 workstations from HP a couple of years ago.
    > They were all to run Solaris x86, so we returned all the Windows
    > licenses to HP and got a refund. In the UK at least, if you
    > refuse to accept the Windows license, the supplier has no choice
    > other than to refund you for the Windows license.
    >

    the way around that is to preinstall Windows with no license. The end
    user then has three choices:

    1. buy a Windows license before the thing cripples itself
    2. scrub the Windows partition and install something else
    3. dig out an old license key and use that or find one of the many GA
    hacks and steal it.

    In this way, the end user can try-before-he-buys, see how insanely
    crappy Windows is compared to the Knoppix DVD you'd also supply him (did
    I forget to mention that? Apologies...) and plump for Linux. One of my
    favourite tricks, and it also gets me out of having to wait on M$ for an
    OEM license refund (yeah, right! Like it's worth bothering over 11 quid
    a time!)

    Oh, and technically legal. 

    -- 
Cheers,					http://www.dotware.co.uk
Jim			  http://www.dotware-entertainment.co.uk
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