I'll back everything Terry said about Novatech. I visited the showroom
and tried a live disk on a desktop machine with no problem (except the
guy didn't known about 'live CD's!); bought the machine with extra HD
only to find no drive connector on main board. No problem as we went
back following week and they sorted everything out. Other equipment
bought has arrived within 3 days, one on the following day!
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On 03/12/11 09:10, Terry Coles wrote:
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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