[QCLUG] buying laptop from dell

[Mike Robinson]

Its the deer in the headlights look when you mention linux...most will
back off pretty quick.

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 22:02 -0500, John Brun wrote:
> 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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