[wellylug] Purchasing a new laptop

[Richard Hector]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:37 +1300, Jethro Carr wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:59 +1100, Carl Turney wrote:
> > Something I've seriously considered, when I get enough cash to buy a new 
> > laptop, is...
> > 
> > Remove the Gates-infected hard disk and put in a safe place.
> > 
> > Put a new blank hard disk into the laptop.
> > 
> > Install a good operating system (e.g. some distro of LINUX).
> > 
> > Much later, put the original MS hard disk back in the laptop, just 
> > before you sell it off to someone, when you yourself are moving up to a 
> > newer laptop.  They'll be pleased with a pristine copy of Windoze, all 
> > configured etc.
> 
> No need to buy a 2nd drive....
> 
> Just erase all the windows partitions when installing Linux. And when
> you want to sell it, use the restore disks to load Windows back on.
> 
> (unless the pc vendor is too crappy to provide recovery disks)

HP was. I had to burn the recovery disks myself - after going through
all the stuff that customises it to me. So the next owner won't get a
pristine copy, they'll get one with my name all over it. I like the
second disk idea myself, but that's a lot more dosh. Also, if I wanted
to use the spare disk for claiming on the warranty (to prove that the
fault exists in Windows) I'd still have to go through all the
customisation.


Richard