[Techtalk] report on shiny new Thinkpad, or, Windows sux worse than ever

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:07:36PM +0500, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:13:18PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > First off, there are NO software CDs included. Nada. zero. Zip. None. Not 
> > even a recovery CD. There is a recovery partition on the hard drive, oh 
> > that's a good idea. :P However IBM will ship a recovery CD, free, on request.
> 
> Except for IBM Australia who want $AU82 for it! I didn't feel like
> paying again for software that I already had to pay for without really
> wanting to. :-/

I remember reading somewhere (maybe on an old set of MS CDs) that
companies *must* ship the software they install for Microsoft products. I
wonder if there's some kind of thing where you can email microsoft and
tell them you're missing your install CDs?

> Hmm. Perhaps the recovery-from-CD is different to
> recover-from-partition.

Recovery CDs are *nasty*nasty*nasty* things. They aren't a real install,
they're [IBM's] version of what they think a correct install should be. To
be honest I scrapped the recovery CDs and found an old copy of a Microsoft
CD that I had kicking around from an old desktop I bought which had Win2K.

If you can get your hands on a "creative" set of MS CDs I'd recommend
using them and using the recovery CDs as coasters. You paid for the
microsoft install so I wouldn't feel too morally corrupt about finding a
set of CDs that work.

emma

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