[QCLUG] buying laptop from dell

[John Brun]

As of late I have had real good relations with Best Buy. Mostly in the
warranty dept.  I have a 21 inch LCD screen that the first two I bought
had bad pixels.  They were replaced without question.  Couple other
incidents that have been handled fine.   As for Windows et al, I just
don't even ask questions, I politely thank them for any info, and tell
them I'm going to wipe the drive clean.  Usually been a short conversation.

John

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:41:53PM -0500, Mike Burns wrote:
>   
>> Or better yet, when XP first came out and I had this guy from M$ try to
>> convince me that XP did not sit on top of DOS.  He went so far as to tell me
>> that the cmd window that you can get on XP was an emulator that sits on top
>> of XP.  Well, I convinced him that if it was indeed an "emulator" that that
>> XP didn't sit on top of DOS, then we could just rename a couple of obvious
>> DOS files and XP would still boot.  I didn't stick around long enough to see
>> if he had to reinstall or just rescue mode from the CD-ROM, but the look on
>> his face was priceless when the computer gave him a black screen with the
>> white letters saying "Operating system not found."  Naturally I had to throw
>> in there the old, "well, I guess I was right and XP does sit on top of DOS."
>>     
>
> Cute story, but no, XP does not sit on top of DOS...
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