Hi Carlos, Our company purchased three(3) Compaq laptops from Octagon SM Megamall branch some four (4) months back and all the laptops came with DOS. They didn't give us any hassles whatsoever. Maybe now MS is forcing them to do this bullying tactics but hey MS was able to bully even the big manufacturers like HP to have Vista pre-installed on their Mini-Notebook coz if they won't follow what MS wants then MS won't certify their drivers.
Jan 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 > -- http://jangestre.wordpress.com
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