Re: [Hampshire] Microsoft Vista Refund - Information Sought

On Monday 23 March 2009 11:37:22 Sean Gibbins wrote:
>
> Good point, especially considering my experiences with couriers in the
> past*, and I will put the final decision in Ellen's hands, as I think
> she is fairly keen to get this thing up and running as smoothly her
> desktop machine is currently.
>
> If she says she can't be bothered to be without it and risk damage in
> transit all for the sake of pocket change and /my/ principles, then I
> will simply scrub Vista and set up Ubuntu on it.
>
> Sean
>
> * ShittyLink dropping a £300 Shuttle machine from a height of 2m over my
> garden gate, in the rain, onto concrete, and ParcelFarce leaving a £2.2K
> laptop on the doorstep!
>
> --
> The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact
> mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa

While I hate to advise it, it might be worthwhile making a ghost of the hard
disk and any hidden partition just in case you need to send it back to acer for
repair or to give you a better selling point (there are those that will run
away from Linux) in the future.

But I'm with the cut your losses brigade, sending it back is going to cause more
problem that it is worth.

Tim