Vista? A couple of months ago I bought a laptop from HP and they are not recommending the use of Vista and encouraged customers to install XP instead. I went to a laptop repair shop (for my old laptop) and I met a couple of customers requesting for a change of OS from Vista to XP.
JFTiongson On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Mark David Dumlao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Oh wow. > > Are you sure that the manager/sales guy understood your position? Is it > possible that they thought that your ubuntu was some sort of pirated > operating system or something like that? Also, you said the manager > instructed the salesperson to make a call. Make a call to whom? And was that > guy able to properly explain the situation to his upper up? Is it possible > that his upper up thought that you were going to "install your own os" the > pirated way... > > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Carlos Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just wanted to share a true story with PLUG members. One of CYWare's >> programmers' laptop wouldn't power up yesterday and since we were >> chasing a deadline for a project, I decided to purchase a new one right >> away. I went to Octagon in Park Square 1 Glorietta and found a decent >> Compaq laptop reasonably priced at 40K PHP. The laptop box said it came >> free with the DOS operating system which didn't matter to me since we >> were going to install Linux on it. >> >> I called the sales guy, handed him my credit card, and told him I wanted >> to purchase the machine. He then told me that they were not allowed to >> sell the laptop unless I purchased an operating system with it. I told >> them that my company, CYWare, sells primarily Linux based products and I >> would be installing Ubuntu on it. The sales guy insisted that a >> licensed operating system had to be installed on it and told me I had to >> purchase Vista with the machine. I then asked for the manager and >> explained what I was trying to do. The manager instructed the sales guy >> to make a phone call and after the phone conversation, they re-iterated >> the same policy: Windows Vista had to be purchased with the machine. I >> then asked the manager if he was willing to give up the sale because >> there was no way I was going to pay for something I really didn't need. >> To my amazement, he said he was. >> >> Needless to say, I took my business elsewhere. After visiting a few >> stores, I realized that the nice laptops all came with Vista. I ended >> up going to WellCom and buying a more expensive laptop that came with >> Windows Vista installed. Of course, once it got back to the office, the >> hard drive was reformatted and Vista was replaced with Ubuntu. >> >> I know I could have researched the purchase more carefully, but >> unfortunately, I was in a rush and foolishly assumed that a laptop >> purchase would be simple. Go figure... >> >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Jaime F. Tiongson
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