Why do PC manufacturers not supply O/S CD's with there products

[kurttrail]

LOL! Leythos is obsessed with kurttrail! He can never resist
responding to any of his posts! Leythos, you are so whipped! I guess
kurttrail, I guess you have a b*tch following you around like a lost
puppy whether you like it or not.

Yeah. And this thread is really stupid, since I don't have a real
opinion one way or the other whether the CD or the disk partition is
more expensive for the OEM.

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[Guest]

NOT robots. This important work is performed by CD farmers who wear black
overalls and pointy little tin-foil hats. This can be verified at the
unimpeachable source, Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tin_foil_hat_2.jpg

Obviously, tin-foil hats are not just for paranoids and lunatics anymore;
they come in a wide variety of styles (but only ONE color):
http://www.ericisgreat.com/tinfoilhats/

Even the military has learned the value of tin-foil hats:
http://www.jessicaswell.com/images/tfh_clark.jpg

Soon you will be wearing one too:
http://img92.exs.cx/img92/493/TinFoilHatArea.jpg

 

[kurttrail]

NOT robots. This important work is performed by CD farmers who wear
black overalls and pointy little tin-foil hats. This can be verified
at the unimpeachable source, Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tin_foil_hat_2.jpg

Obviously, tin-foil hats are not just for paranoids and lunatics
anymore; they come in a wide variety of styles (but only ONE color):
http://www.ericisgreat.com/tinfoilhats/

Even the military has learned the value of tin-foil hats:
http://www.jessicaswell.com/images/tfh_clark.jpg

Soon you will be wearing one too:
http://img92.exs.cx/img92/493/TinFoilHatArea.jpg

And where does one find tin foil? Most of the foil in my area is made
out of aluminum.

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Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Plato]

I recently purchased a Dell laptop,

I paid the extra for Windows XP Professional because I am a software
developer and I require it for apps such as .net.

As a software developer one should own/buy a real MS OS CD.

 

[Rhonda Lea Kirk]

Breaker wrote:

They will send one if you make enough noise. Be aware though it is
most likely going to cost you. On my laptop it cost me like $26 from
Dell for the CD pack. Included the XP CD as well as all the drivers,
apps etc that came pre-loaded on the machine. (3 CDs in all)

They tried to tell me I had no need for one. But I told them I did
need one because if for some reason the hard drive failed then I would
have no way to reload my laptop.

The invoice total for my three CDs was around $28.45. That said, because
my computer was still under warranty (limited hardware warranty because
as a matter of principle, I don't buy service contracts), I was not
charged for these disks.

I did not call, I emailed. I explained in the email that I was entitled
to the disks and that I wanted them sent soonest. I had a reply within
24 hours and the disks arrived within 2 business days.

FFI:

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=169475

The post you're looking for is the fifth one down.

I have come to the tentative conclusion that Dell is very customer
service oriented, if only one knows how to ask properly.

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Rhonda Lea Kirk

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without the balls to live in the real world.
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