On 07/01/07 22:11 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:49, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > On 07/01/07 20:44 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > > Dell generally honours such requests. You can buy the laptop with > > > Windows and when you first turn it on, you can refuse the EULA and > > > contact the vendor ( Toshiba ) and tell them that you want a > > > refund. They can't refuse. If they do, you can take them to the > > > consumer court I guess... > > > > Toshiba sells the software+hardware as a bundle, they aren't separate > > components. The only option for a refund is to return that laptop. > > Nope. You can REFUSE the EULA when you first turn on the laptop. > Refusing the EULA means you have NOT used M$ Windows and thus you can > claim the refund. I am 100% sure of it. This is the only way you can > get a refund on preloaded laptops... >
The point is, Toshiba does NOT treat the OS as separate from the hardware. You cannot get a refund on one _part_. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
