On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 08:12:31 Sean Gibbins wrote:
> Well, as far as I can see there's nothing, either morally or legally, to
> stop you from firing it up with live CD of some description to see
> what's what in terms of compatibility. As long as you are careful with
It would have to be a live USB stick; Netbooks don't have CD drives :-)
> the packaging (a) who's to know and (b) what harm's done if you find
> it's a complete 'mare and opt to return it?
I didn't mention it before, but I think that Novatech's Customer Service is
second to none, so I don't think there would be any issue there.
I've bought loads of stuff from them and, on occasion, had to return some for
one reason or another.
Years ago I bought a motherboard, CPU and memory from them and found that it
had problems that I could only put down to flaky memory. I can't remember the
details, but I took it back to them and even though they couldn't find
anything wrong with it, they refunded my money.
When I bought the Netbook, it had a rather quiet Mic. I took it back and they
replaced it, even though it worked OK for them (it may have been a Linux
Driver issue at the time, because the replacement was a bit quiet too,
although it seems OK these days.
Even more recently, I bought a Draytech router, which worked fine for around
10-15 hrs, then it went slow. There was no question of repair or replacement
being the only option; they refunded the money immediately because they didn't
have another in stock. I think that even if they'd had one, they would
probably have let me have a refund if I'd wanted it.
It also helps that they're less than an hour's drive away.
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