On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:40:43 +0300 Vassilii Khachaturov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > > My wife actually said she probably prefers a 12" model, but can do with > [snip] > If, meanwhile, somebody on the list got acquainted with a place in > Israel to buy a non-wide linux-friendly laptop WITHOUT MS TAX, please > tell us. So far it looks that the MS marketing successfully forced all > the dealers to pre-brand all their stock laptops as MS OEM units :-( > Have a look at MSI, sold by ivory (www.ivory.co.il). It comes with no M$ (either by default or as a discount, not sure what it is now). It also comes with a two year warrenty (one international). There is a 12" 2kg version I believe for a very resonable price (last time I checked there was a celron version for about 3800 NIS) > Or, if there is any of you, who knows a sure legal route to the refund > in Israel (similar to the UK-specific story > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6144782.stm ), please tell us. I > do have some hope because Israeli law is a descendant of the UK one > AFAIU (again, IANAL). > I doubt that you'll get anything, my guess is that M$ will point you at IBM if they'll bother and IBM may ignore you or say you can return the laptop if you haven't used it or something like that. Besides, IBM doesn't give you an installation disk at all, they reserve about 10GB on the disk for the restore option. > If we do make any progress with it, I'm going to follow up any > successful or unsuccessful refund attempts. > > VKh > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
