Re: Linux on the Cheapest Laptops

robertharvey_at_my-deja.com
Date: 08/20/05

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    Jim wrote:
    > > won't boot properly unless I pop the DVD drive from
    > > the multi-bay on the left,
    > faulty drive
    Third since February? I suspect that the "replacements" from the
    support contract are just recycled from customer to customer without
    anyone looking at them. A suspicion only fuelled by having a
    replacement with a game DVD in it supplied.

    > > the screen has been damaged by the keyboard
    > > because I had the temerity to close the lid,
    >try an OHP film cellotaped
    >over the panel, works wonders.
    Well, that's a good bit of design I must say!

    > > and it came without windows disks.
    >secondhand, by any chance? New Dells come with recovery discs.
    Not for corporate customers in the UK they don't. They come with a
    recovery partition that can only be used to blitz your whole hard disk
    - no chance of preserving data in a separate partition. All or nothing
    recovery, which has failed to work on the two occasions I have tried
    it. Just zapped the hard disk. Official solution was to order another
    hard disk from Dell: my solution was to nick someone elses and set them
    both up under Linux and do an image copy.

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